Obs. Also 7 Somask. [a. F. Somasque, ad. It. Somasco, f. Somasca (see prec.).] = SOMASCHIAN sb.
1686. trans. Bouhours’ St. Ignatius, V. 284. He had made the same Answer some Years before, in reference to the Somasques, and the Theatines.
1693. trans. d’Emilianne’s Hist. Monast. Orders, xviii. 188. The Fathers of the Christian Doctrin … petition’d to be united to the Somasks.
1706. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., II. IV. xi. 450. Jerome Emiliani, a noble Venetian, in the year 1530 founded some Regular Clerks, called Somasques, from the name of the place where they lived.
