"Minorite" is a word in ENGLISH

A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed …

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

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

The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

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

A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in …

A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an …

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, …

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.

One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the …

A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or …

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in …

A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. …