Word Meanings - DISFRIAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.

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• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• THEMSELVES
  The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• WITHDRAWING-ROOM
  A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• UNNUN
  To remove from condition of being a nun. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• DEPOSE
  1. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden. 2. To let fall; to deposit. Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward. 3. To remove from a throne or other
• DISFRIAR
  To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• DEPOSER
  1. One who deposes or degrades from office. 2. One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
• FRIARLY
  Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.
• FRIAR
  A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. Augustines. Dominicans or Black Friars. White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• CURTAL FRIAR
  A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.
• PRECONDITION
  A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
• BLACK FRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.