O.S.B.

American  

abbreviation

1. Order of St. Benedict (Benedictine).

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OSB British  

abbreviation

1. Order of Saint Benedict

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Example Sentences

Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rev. Alban Boultwood, O.S.B., and handed him a copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Years afterwards this letter came into the hands of Dom Gougaud, O.S.B., who published it in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record.

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

"Why, they're so strict that St. Benedict himself, were he to abide again on earth, would seriously consider a revision of his rules as interpreted by Dom Cuthbert Manners, O.S.B., the Lord Abbot of Clere."

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton