Friar - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: friarFriar
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...
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....
Curtal friar
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery...
Friarly
Like a friar inexperienced...
Blackfriar
A friar of the Dominican order so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans called also predicant and preaching friar in France Jacobin Also sometimes a Benedictine...
Friary
Like a friar pertaining to friars or to a convent...
Disfriar
To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar...
VerbarFregravere
A friar...
friars cowl
A tuberous perennial Arisarum vulgare having a cowl shaped maroon or violet black spathe found in the Mediterranean Canaries and Azores...
Leatherhead
The friar bird...
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