"Friar" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
A white or pale patch on a printed page.
An American fish; the silversides.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) …
Read the complete definitionA member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.
Read the complete definitionAugustinian; as, Austin friars.
Read the complete definitionA friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
Read the complete definitionA friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, …
Read the complete definitionA lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and …
Read the complete definitionThe cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
Read the complete definitionA friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Read the complete definitionTo depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.
Read the complete definitionThe friar skate.
Read the complete definitionOne of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was …
Read the complete definitionThe friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
Read the complete definitionBrother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
Read the complete definitionfráile - (Sp.) Friar; monk; religious, member of a religious order.
Read the complete definitionA monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in …
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. Certain friars who wore white and black garments, walsingham, 124
Read the complete definitionfray - Contr. of fraile and used before the proper name of a Friar, e.g. si Fray António. Father Anthony, …
Read the complete definitionA friar.
Read the complete definitionLike a friar; inexperienced.
Read the complete definitionAn order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches, viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Francis-cans; (2) …
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