[ad. F. Victorin, f. the name of the monastery of St. Victor near Paris.] a. sb. One or other of the founders or adherents of the type of mysticism developed at St. Victor in the 12th and 13th centuries. b. adj. Of or pertaining to the mysticism of St. Victor.
1881. Encycl. Brit., XII. 583/2. The art of the Victorine school was carried to its greatest perfection by Adam of St. Victor.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1603. There is a palpable connection … between the pseudo-Dionysian writings and the Victorines.
1886. C. Bigg, Christian Platonists of Alexandria, v. 189. Thus Origen … became also the spiritual ancestor of Bernard, the Victorines, and the author of the De Imitatione.
