Culdee

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Irish céile Dé (“servant of God”), a calque of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin servus Deī.

Noun

Culdee (plural Culdees)

1. (historical) One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
   • Campbell

     The pure Culdees were Albyn's earliest priests of God.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Culdee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cedule