sb. and a. [See def.]
a. sb. pl. An order of ascetic monks, forming a branch of the Benedictines, founded at Val des Choux (Vallis Caulium) in 1193. b. adj. Of or belonging to the Valliscaulians or their order.
1876. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc., IV. 70. No usurpation by the Pope had taken place of the rights of the Valliscaulian monks to elect their own prior.
1882. Athenæum, 8 April, 442/1. Three priories of the Valliscaulian Order were founded in the remoter districts of Scotland during the reign of Alexander II.
1888. Rankin, Handbk. Ch. Scotl. (ed. 4), 125. The Rented or endowed religious,… subdivided into Benedictines, Cistercians, Carthusians, Vallis-Caulians, and Trinitarians.
