Car|thu|sian «kahr THOO zhuhn», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of an austere monastic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084.
2. a member of the Charterhouse School in England.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Carthusians.
╂[< Medieval Latin Cartusianus < Cartusia (now Chatrousse), a village near the first monastery of the order]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.