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Friar Minor

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.
, plural Friars Minor.
  1. a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis.


Friar Minor

noun

  1. Christianity a member of either of two of the three orders into which the order founded by St Francis of Assisi came to be divided, namely the Order of Friars Minor and the Order of Friars Minor Conventual Compare Capuchin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Friar Minor1

First recorded in 1200–50; friar ( def ), minor ( def )
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Example Sentences

Overpowered with dread, he said he was a Friar Minor; but they said, “You lie, for you do not walk barefooted.”

What should he say of that Friar Minor, the famous preacher of S——, who had been found dead of a surfeit of melons and white wine?

It remains for us to give an account of the academic, or rather scholastic career of a Friar Minor at Oxford.

There were to be annually elected two rectors, the one a Friar Minor, the other a secular.

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