Word Meanings - MINORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A Franciscan friar.
Related words: (words related to MINORITE)
- FRANCISCAN
Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. Franciscan Brothers, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. - 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. - FRIARY
Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. Camden. - CURTAL FRIAR
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott. - BLACK FRIAR
A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine. - DISFRIAR
To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller. - WHITE FRIAR
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.