Alexian

Alexian
/euh lek"sheuhn, -see euhn/, n. Rom. Cath. Ch.
a member of a congregation of brothers founded for the care of the sick at Mechlin, Brabant, in the 15th century.
[named after Saint Alexius of Edessa, 5th-century Christian; see -AN]

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