friary
Americannoun
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friaries
plural
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a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
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a brotherhood of friars.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of friary
1300–50; late Middle English freyry, frayry, Middle English frari < Anglo-French, Old French frairie, frarie; see friar, -y 3
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However, the Richard III Society and University of Leicester archaeologists decided to investigate suggestions the king had actually been buried in the former Greyfriars friary in the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Most of the dead were buried in town cemeteries or plague pits such as one on Bene't Street next to the former friary.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
They also collected similar samples from 25 nonmonastic skeletons interred around the same time at a rural parish around a kilometer away from the friary ruins.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
Mr. McCarrick, who has never been criminally charged, has been living in an undisclosed location since leaving a Capuchin friary in Kansas in January.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
The church belonging to the friary was completed in the reign of Richard II.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Many friaries were even outfitted with running water systems—a luxury absent from even aristocratic households of the time—to allow the friars to wash their hands.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
He made his new associates envious with an account of the goods of the friaries at Roxburgh and Berwick.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
Lord Cork reported that "he had set up two houses of correction in dissolved friaries, in which the beggarly youths are taught trades."
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey
As examples of English friaries, the Dominican house at Norwich, and those of the Dominicans and Franciscans at Gloucester, may be mentioned.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
He devoted his energies to training up lecturers who should go to the Franciscan friaries in the chief towns in England and Wales and teach friars and clergy the art of popular preaching.
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
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