[ad. med.L. Studita (Eccl. Gr. Στουδίτης), f. Studi-um (Eccl. Gr. Στουδιόν), said to be named from its founder Studius (Στουδιός): see -ITE.] A monk of the order of Acœmeti (‘the sleepless’) established in the 5th c. at the monastery of the Studium at Constantinople. Also attrib. and as adj.
1693. D’Emilianne’s Hist. Monast. Orders, 21. Of the Order of the Acæmetes or Studites. Ibid. They were likewise called Studites, from one Studius, who founded for them, at Constantinople, the Monastery of St. John the Baptist.
1906. W. H. Hutton, Ch. & Barbarians, xiv. 162. The age of the Iconoclasts was the golden age of the Studite monks. Ibid., 163. For a while after his death there is silence over the history of the Studites.
1913. W. K. L. Clarke, St. Basil, viii. 135. The monasteries were not all Studite, even after Theodore’s influence had spread far and wide.
