sb. and a. Also 9 Teresan. [f. the name of St. Teresa (a Spanish Carmelite nun, 1515–1582) + -IAN.) a. sb. A member of a reformed order of Carmelite nuns and friars founded by St. Teresa in the 16th c.
b. adj. Belonging to this order.
1629. Wadsworth, Pilgr., vii. 73. There is … a monastery of the English poore Teresians at Antwerpe.
1767. S. Paterson, Another Trav., I. 352. That [sisterhood] of the Theresians is reckoned the poorest and most pitiable.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2348. [St. Theresa] founded at Avila a convent for the Barefooted Carmelites, also called the Theresians.
1897. J. P. Rushe (title), Carmel in Ireland:… the Irish Province of Teresian, or Discalced Carmelites.
