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== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_19805" /> == | |||
<p> (Lat. frater, Fr. frere, brother), a term common to monks of all kinds, founded on the supposition that there is a brotherhood between the persons of the same monastery. It is especially applied to members of the four mendicant orders, viz. </p> <p> 1. Franciscans, Minorites, or Gray Friars; </p> <p> 2. Augustines; </p> <p> 3. Dominicans, or [[Black]] Friars; </p> <p> 4. Carmelites, or [[White]] Friars. </p> <p> In a more restricted sense, the word means a monk who is not a priest: those in orders are generally denominated father. </p> | <p> (brother, ) A term common to the monks of all orders. [[In]] a more peculiar sense, it is restrained to such monks as are not priests: for those in orders are usually dignified with the appellation of father. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_40540" /> == | |||
<p> (Lat. frater, Fr. frere, brother), a term common to monks of all kinds, founded on the supposition that there is a brotherhood between the persons of the same monastery. It is especially applied to members of the four mendicant orders, viz. </p> <p> 1. Franciscans, Minorites, or [[Gray]] Friars; </p> <p> 2. Augustines; </p> <p> 3. Dominicans, or [[Black]] Friars; </p> <p> 4. Carmelites, or [[White]] Friars. </p> <p> [[In]] a more restricted sense, the word means a monk who is not a priest: those in orders are generally denominated father. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_73405" /> == | |||
<p> [[E]] . brother), a name applied generally to members of religious brotherhoods, but which in its strict significance indicated an order lower than that of priest, the latter being called "father," while they differed from monks in that they travelled about, whereas the monk remained secluded in his monastery; in the 13th century arose the Grey Friars or Franciscans, the [[Black]] Friars or Dominicans, the [[White]] Friars or Carmelites, [[Augustinians]] or [[Austin]] Friars, and later the [[Crutched]] Friars or Trinitarians. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_19805"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/friar Friar from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_40540"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/friar Friar from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_40540"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/friar Friar from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_73405"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/friar Friar from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
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