a. [a. F. congréganiste, as sb. a member of a congregation of laymen directed by ecclesiastics; as adj., in école c. opposed to école laïque.] Of French schools: Conducted by the Brethren of the Christian Schools, or by Sisters of various religious orders.
1861. M. Arnold, Pop. Educ. France, 110. In all the French schools … lay as well as congreganist. Ibid. (1879), Mixed Ess., 157. Both the episcopal schools and the congreganist schools, as they are called, have increased in number.
