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Hermit of St. Augustine

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noun

Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a member of an order of mendicant friars, founded in 1256.


Etymology

Origin of Hermit of St. Augustine

First recorded in 1700–10

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He had at nineteen years of age taken the habit of hermit of St. Augustine.

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