Culdee

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• Culdee — Cul*dee (k?l d? or k?l d?), n. [ Prob. fr. Gael.cuilteach; cf. Ir. ceilede.] One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. [1913 Webster] The pure Culdees Were Albyn s earliest priests of God. Campbell.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• culdee — (n.) mid 12c., from O.Ir. cele de anchorite, from cele associate, sometimes servant + de of God. Perhaps an attempt to translate some Latin term for religious hermit …   Etymology dictionary

• Culdee — Céli Dé or Culdees were originally members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland and England in the Middle Ages. The term is used of St. John the Apostle, of a missioner from abroad recorded in the Annals… …   Wikipedia

• Culdee Fell Railway — The Culdee Fell Railway …   Wikipedia

• Culdee — Member of an Anglo Scottish order of ascetics …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• culdee — cul·dee …   English syllables

• culdee — ˈkəlˌdē noun ( s) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: New Latin culdei (plural), alteration (influenced by New Latin cultores Dei worshipers of God) of Medieval Latin keldei, keledei, from Old Irish cēle Dē, literally, companion of God, from cēle …   Useful english dictionary

• Aengus the Culdee — Infobox Saint name=Saint Aengus (the Culdee) birth date=unknown death date=death date|824|3|11|df=y feast day=11 March venerated in=Roman Catholic Church imagesize= caption= birth place=Clonengh, Ireland death place= titles= beatified date=… …   Wikipedia

• St. Aengus (The Culdee) —     St. Aengus (the Culdee)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Aengus (the Culdee)     An Irish saint who flourished in the last quarter of the eighth century, and is held in imperishable honour as the author of the Feliré, or Festology of the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Aengus, Saint (the Culdee) — • Irish hermit, hagiographer, poet, late eighth century Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia