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Definition of Friars
1. friar [n] - See also: friar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friars
Literary usage of Friars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The east end •is usually square, but the friars Church at Winchelsea had a ...
The friars' churches were at 6nt destitute of towers; but in the uth and isth ..."
2. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"Hard upon these, in 1244, came also the Crutched friars, so called from the red
cross ... The multiplication of orders of friars became an abuse, so that, ..."
3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"Hard upon these, in 1244, came also the Crutched friars ... The multiplication
of orders of friars became an abuse, so that, at the Council of Lyons of 1245 ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of by Thomas Frederick Tout (1905)
"Hard upon these, in 1244, came also the Crutched friars, so called from the red
cross ... The multiplication of orders of friars became an abuse, so that, ..."
5. A survey of London: Written in the Year 1598 by John Stow, William John Thoms (1876)
"In the year 1250, the friars of this order of preachers through Christendom and
from Jerusalem, were by a convocation assembled together at this their house ..."
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