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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Eccl. Hist.)

A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. – Also used as

Adj.

Noun.

One of a reformed order of Benedictine monks, so called from Cluni in Burgundy.

Cluniac ‎(plural Cluniacs)

(historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.