Friary: alternatives and connections

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over th…

An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

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

Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

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

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…

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent.

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.

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…

A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an o…

The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

A convent or monastery.

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

To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

The friar skate.

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.…