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

Disfriar :: Disfriar (v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar..

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

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

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

Jacobin :: "Jacobin (n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris..

Convert :: Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir..

Austin :: Austin (a.) Augustinian; as, Austin friars..

Minor :: Minor (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

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

Pimlico :: Pimlico (n.) The friar bird.

Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..

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

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

Cordon :: Cordon (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

Friary :: Friary (n.) The institution or praactices of friars.

Minorite :: Minorite (n.) A Franciscan friar.

Friar :: Friar (n.) An American fish; the silversides.

Frere :: Frere (n.) A friar.

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