Carthusian

American  

[kahr-thoo-zhuhn] / kɑrˈθu ʒən /

noun

1. a member of a monastic order founded by St. Bruno in 1086 near Grenoble, France.

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adjective

1. pertaining to the Carthusians.

Carthusian British  

/ kɑːˈθjuːzɪən /

noun

1. RC Church

   1. a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France

   2. ( as modifier )

      a Carthusian monastery

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Etymology

Origin of Carthusian

1520–30; < Medieval Latin Cartusiānus, by metathesis from Catursiānus, after Catursiānī ( montēs ) district in Dauphiné where the order was founded

Example Sentences

According to Chartreuse Diffusion, the business arm of the monks’ operation, it took more than 150 years for the Carthusians to “unravel the secret of the manuscript.”

From Seattle Times

This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion.

From Seattle Times

The famed Polish composer and his French lover, a novelist known by her male pen name, spent the winter of 1838 at this former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa.

From Washington Post

It would not be the first time the Carthusians reinvent themselves.

From New York Times

I’m thinking specifically about “Into Great Silence,” Philip Gröning’s rapturously enveloping documentary about Carthusian monks in the French Alps.

From Los Angeles Times