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Somaschan, Somascan, n. and a.|səʊˈmæskən|
Also Somaschian.
[f. It. Somaschi, pl. of Somasco (cf. next), f. Somasca, a place lying north-west from Bergamo in Italy.]
a. n. A member of a religious order, chiefly engaged in charitable instruction, founded at Somasca by Gerolamo Emiliani about 1530.
b. adj. Of or pertaining to this order.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Rel. Knowl. III. 2214 The order of the Somaschians..in the Roman-Catholic Church. 1882T. A. Pope tr. Capecelatro's Life of St. Philip Neri II. iii. x. 153 He..co-operated in the erecting of a house of Somaschans for orphan boys. 1936L. Christiani in E. Eyre European Civilization IV. ii. i. 162 The immense achievements of Capuchins,..Somascans, and Barnabites. 1940E. Graf tr. Pastor's Hist. of Popes XXX. iv. 177 In 1647 Innocent dissolved the union between the Doctrinarians and the Somaschans.
So Soˈmaschi n. pl.
1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 716/2 Clerks regular of St Majolus of Pavia, or ‘Somaschi’. 1978D. H. Farmer Oxford Dict. Saints 211/1 [St. Jerome Emiliani] founded orphanages, hospitals, and houses for repentant prostitutes. To look after them he also founded a small congregation of clerks regular, called the Somaschi after their place of origin. |
