Gil'bert-īne, n.
n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England, about A. D. 1148. The monks observed the rule of St. Augustine, the nuns that of St. Benedict.
n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England, about A. D. 1148. The monks observed the rule of St. Augustine, the nuns that of St. Benedict.