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Friar [fr. frere, Fr.; frater, Lat., brother], an order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches, viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Franciscans; (2) Augustines; (3) Dominicans, or Black Frairs; (4) White Friars, or Carmelites, from whom the rest descend. See 4 Hen. 7, c. 17; Lyndewood de Relig. Domibus, c. 1.