资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Culdee \Cul*dee"\ (k?l-d?" or k?l"d?), n. [ Prob. fr. Gael.
   cuilteach; cf. Ir. ceilede.]
   One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of
   Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

         The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God.
                                                  --Campbell.