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Friar

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) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

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Augustinian 76% connected

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

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Black friar 76% connected

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

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Blackfriar 76% connected

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Carmelite 76% connected

Alt. of Carmelin

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Dominican 76% connected

Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.

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Franciscan 76% connected

Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.

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White friar 76% connected

A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.

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Religious 76% connected

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religi…

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Mendicant 92% connected

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

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Beggary noun · 78% connection

the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"

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Brother noun · 78% connection

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

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Brother german unknown · 78% connection

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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Composite verb · 78% connection

Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Ital…

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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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Cordelier noun · 78% connection

A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

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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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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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Elder adjective · 78% connection

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now com…

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Emancipation noun · 78% connection

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of…

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Foster verb · 78% connection

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

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Four-in-hand adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

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Gray superl. · 78% connection

Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

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Incapacity noun · 78% connection

Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of m…

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Levirate noun · 78% connection

the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line

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Mendicancy noun · 78% connection

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

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Mendinant noun · 78% connection

A mendicant or begging friar.

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