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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of a Roman Catholic congregation, founded at Somascha, near Milan, in Italy, in the first half of the sixteenth century: it adopted the rules of St. Augustine.
  • Pertaining to the religious society of Somaschians.

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