observantine

Adjective

(not comparable)

Of or pertaining to the Observant branch of Franciscan friars

Noun

(plural Observantines)

A member of the Observant branch of Franciscan friars.

Origin

French observantin.

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Thereafter he joined the order of Observantine Franciscans, at St Andrews or Edinburgh, and proceeded to France as a wandering friar.
At an early age he entered the order of Observantine Friars, the strictest sect of the Franciscans, and rose to be its general, but, craving a yet stricter rule, transferred himself in 1534 to the newly founded order of Capuchins, of which in 1538 he was elected vicar-general.

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