Ursuline
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📖 中文释义
- n. 乌尔苏拉会的修女
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at
- Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula,
- under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into
- Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The
- members are devoted entirely to education.
- a. Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of
- Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.