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Augustinian

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

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Friar 76% connected

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Aug…

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Mendicant 76% connected

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.

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Abelonian noun · 78% connection

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the ma…

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Augustinism noun · 78% connection

The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

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Austin adjective · 78% connection

Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

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Black friar unknown · 78% connection

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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Carmelite noun · 78% connection

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a…

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Chevalier noun · 78% connection

A member of certain orders of knighthood.

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Contempt noun · 78% connection

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…

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Convert noun · 78% connection

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in th…

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Coquina noun · 78% connection

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and…

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Cordon noun · 78% connection

The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

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Curtal friar unknown · 78% connection

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.

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Devout verb · 78% connection

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

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Disfriar verb · 78% connection

To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

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Dismember verb · 78% connection

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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Doctor noun · 78% connection

The friar skate.

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Dominican noun · 78% connection

One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221.…

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Doric adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of t…

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Exchange noun · 78% connection

The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by…

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