Camaldulians, Camaldulen

'SIANS, CAMAL'DULITES, CAMAL'DOLITES, n. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) A religious order (now almost extinct), founded at Camaldoli, or Campus Malduli, a desert spot on the lofty heights of the A pennines, about 30 m. from Florence, by Romualdo, an Italian, in 1023. They follow the rule of St. Benedict, and are divided into Cenobites and Eremites. Ca'mamu, in Brazil, the name of a town, a bay, and an island. The bay is 75 m. S.W. of Bahia, and the town has a pop . of about 2,000. Camanche', in California , a post-village of Calaveras co., 22 m. S.W. of Mokelumne Hill. Camanche, in Iowa , a township and village of Clinton co., on the Mi i ippi River. Camanche Indians. See COMANCHE. Cama'no Island, in the State of Washington , separated from the main land by a narrow channel. It is about 12 m. long, and forms part of Island co. Camapuan', a river of Brazil, prov. of Matto-Gro o. It is 70 m. long, and is one of the head-streams of an affluent of the Paraguay, called Tacoary or Taquari. Cam'aran'ca, a river of W. Africa, in Guinea, rising in the Kong Mountains, Lat. 9o N., Lon. 9° 15′ W. After a course S.W. of about 250 m., it falls into Yawry Bay on the coast of Sierra Leone. ology to signify the influence of secret and unaccredited counsellors in matters of state or government. In Spain, where the term was first used, this influence had a most pernicious effect. Under Ferdinand VII. the name was applied to those flatterers by whom that monarch was mostly influenced, and who were generally men without talent, and opposed to every kind of reform. The term was also much used in France during the reign of Charles X. In England, the term is nearly synonymous with clique . Cam a rines, in the island of Luçon, the name of two provinces, C. North, and C. South.