Augustinians, (a) Canons, called also Black Cenobites, under a less severe discipline than monks, had 200 houses in England and Wales at the Reformation; (b) Friars, mendicant, a portion of them barefooted; (c) Nuns, nurses of the sick.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Au`gustine, St. * Augustus