Word Meanings - FRIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. Camden.

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• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONVENTICLING
  Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• CONVENT
  1. A coming together; a meeting. A usual ceremony at their convents or meetings. B. Jonson. 2. An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. One of our convent, and his confessor. Shak. 3. A house
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONVENTICAL
  Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• CONVENTICLE
  1. A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. Ayliffe. 2. An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution,
• CONVENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.
• CONVENTIONARY
  Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. R. Carew.
• FRIARLY
  Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.
• CONVENTIONALIZE
  1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the
• 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.
• CONVENTION
  An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due
• CONVENTICLER
  One who supports or frequents conventicles. Dryden.
• CONVENTIONER
  One who belongs to a convention or assembly.
• 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.