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Definition of friar

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Friar (n.) 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..

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Mendicant :: Mendicant (a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars..

Frock :: Frock (n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord..

Scad :: Scad (n.) The friar skate.

Puck :: Puck (n.) A celebrated fairy, the merry wanderer of the night; -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc..

Friary :: Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.

Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..

Augustinian :: Augustinian (n.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) The friar skate.

Friar :: Friar (n.) 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..

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..

Alsatian :: Alsatian (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London..

Curtal Friar :: Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

Leatherneck :: Leatherneck (n.) The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

Fra :: Fra (n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo..

Possessioner :: Possessioner (n.) An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars..

Minim :: Minim (n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

White Friar :: White friar () A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite..

Friarly :: Friarly (a.) Like a friar; inexperienced.

Limit :: Limit (v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar..