Carmelite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: carmeliteCarmelite
Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites...
Calced
Wearing shoes calceated in distintion from discalced or barefooted as the calced Carmelites...
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...
Alsatia
Alsatia, formerly a cant name for Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which, possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the law; see Scott's Fortunes of Nigel, ch. 17. These privileges were derived from its having been an establishment of the Carmelites, or White Friars, founded in 1241. In the time of the Reformation the place retained its immunities as a sanctuary, and James I. confirmed and added to them by a charter in 1608, but all privileges of sanctuary were shortly afterwards abolished in 1624 by 21 Jac. 1, c. 28....
Friar
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....
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