a. Of or pertaining to St. Bernard (abbot of Clairvaux in 1115), or to the monastic order bearing his name. sb. A monk of this order; a Cistercian.
1676. Bullokar, Bernardines, a certain Order of Monks, so called from their first Founder.
1792. A. Young, Trav. France, 41. Pass a convent of Bernardine monks.
1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav., II. xlvi. (ed. 2), 110. One of these temples … is … become the church of the Bernardines.
1864. Gentl. Mag., CXXXIV. II. 25. The Bernardine reform soon spread to this country.
