Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Carthusian

Carthusian , noun

[Late Latin Cartusianus, Cartusiensis, from the town of Chartreuse, in France.]

(Ecclesiastical Hist.) A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

Carthusian , adjective

Pertaining to the Carthusian.