A religious order of Ireland and Scotland, said to have been
founded in the sixth century by St. Columba. So called from the Gaelic
cylle-dee (a house of cells) or ceilede (servants of God,
ceile, a servant). Giraldus Cambrensis, going to the Latin for its
etymology, according to a custom unhappily not yet extinct, derives it
from colo-deus (to worship God).
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