Ursuline

plural Ursulines

1. One of a Roman Catholic female religious order whose patron saint is Saint Ursula.

1. not comparableRelating to or belonging to the Ursulines.

   At the age of two years and a half, she was sent from home, and placed at the Ursuline Seminary, but remained there only for a short time.

   1846, Thomas C[ogswell] Upham, “Time and Place of Her Birth. Her Parentage. Sickness in Her Infancy. […]”, in Life and Religious Opinions and Experience of Madame de La Mothe Guyon: […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1847, →OCLC, page 3

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   COURCOL for the Appellantes and Demandantes ſets forth, ‘That the Suite was of a Contract of Sale of a houſe ſituate in this City of Metz paſſed by F. Forget then Rector of the Jeſuites of the ſaid City for the uſe of the Urſuline Nuns of Maſcon, ſtipulating for a new eſtabliſhment of the Nuns of the ſame order to be made at Metz aforeſaid.[’]

   1670, “The Famous Story of the Enormous Cheat upon the Nuns of the Order of St. Ursula, by the Rector of the Jesuites of Metz, […]”, in anonymous translator, compiled by [Sébastien Joseph Du Cambout de Pontchâteau], The Moral Practice of the Jesuites; Demonstrated by Many Remarkable Histories of Their Actions in All Parts of the World. […], London: […] Simon Miller, […], →OCLC, page 259

   Our convent gates are rude, and black, and close; / Our Ursuline veils of such a jealous woof, / There must be piercing in those curious eyes, / Would know if the skin beneath be swarth or snowy.

   1815, H[enry] H[art] Milman, Fazio, a Tragedy, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Samuel Collingwood. Sold by J[oseph] Parker; and J[ohn] Murray, […], →OCLC, act II, scene iv, page 45