a. and sb. [ad. med.L. Cluniac-us, f. Cluny.]
A. adj. Belonging to the monastery of Cluny or Clugny, near Mâcon in France. B. sb. A monk of Cluny, or of the order which subsequently developed from it, and separated in the 11th c. from the Benedictines. So Cluniacensian, Clunist.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 281. A Priory … filled with blacke Monkes Cluniacks.
1884. A. Jessopp, in 19th Cent., Jan., 109. The Cluniacs, who were the reformed Benedictines.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2290/2. Tancred built there [on Mt. Tabor] a monastery, and the Cluniacensians a monastery.
1888. Sir G. F. Duckett, Archives of Cluni, I. 79. The Clunists and their then recent and formidable rivals, the Cistercians.
