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(Christianity) Father, an honorific title given to God in the New Testament, especially used in prayers.
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Father, the title of a bishop in an Ethiopian or Coptic church.
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The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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A friar or monk of any Augustinian order.
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Alternative form of Beghard [(historical) One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines, and influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the Brethren of the Free Spirit.]
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(historical) Member of a Spanish order of friars, founded in 1653 and refounded in 1984.
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A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
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Alternative spelling of black friar [A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.]
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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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A monk in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; (generally) a Franciscan.
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A member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic religious order focusing on contemplative prayer and the Virgin Mary.
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.
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(archaic, slightly derogatory) A friar with a short gown.
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A member of a Dorcas association.
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a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Order of Friars Minor: the religious order of friars founded by St Francis of Assisi.
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A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.
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A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
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Alternative form of Friar Preacher [A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.]
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(Catholicism) Ellipsis of Order of Friars Minor: the religious order of friars founded by St Francis of Assisi. [(Catholicism) The religious order of friars established by St Francis of Assisi.]
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Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
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Obsolete form of friar. [A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).]
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(Catholicism) A member of the Gilbertine Order, an English religious order founded around 1130 in Sempringham, Lincolnshire.
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(historical) A monk of the Order of Grandmont, a French religious order founded by Saint Stephen of Thiers towards the end of the 11th century.
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Alternative spelling of greyfriar [(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.]
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Alternative spelling of greyfriar [(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.]
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Alternative letter-case form of grey friar
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.
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(historical) Designating an order of friars founded in 1495 who ministered to the poor, especially in France.
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A member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
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(Christianity) Abbreviation of king, god, almighty, father, protector: a set of terms often used to refer to God in hymns. [A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.]
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A place where Jehovah's Witnesses meet for fellowship and worship.
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A Roman Catholic fraternity for men, founded by a Roman Catholic priest named Michael McGivney.
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A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
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A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
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Alternative spelling of miniver [A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times.]
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A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
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(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minorite: a Franciscan. [(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a friar of the Order of Friars Minor.]
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Order of Friars Minor: the Franciscans, sometimes particularly the Conventuals.
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A member of the Observant branch of Franciscan friars.
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Synonym of Observant (“member of Franciscan order”)
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(Catholicism) The religious order of friars established by St Francis of Assisi.
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
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A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
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St Clare of Assisi (1194–1253).
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(Catholicism, obsolete or historical) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
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(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
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Alternative form of Sulpician [(historical) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry, and later introduced into Canada and the United States.]
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A member of the Catholic order of Discalced Carmelites.
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One of a Roman Catholic female religious order whose patron saint is Saint Ursula.
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(historical) A member of this religious order.
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A member of the religious order of the Carmelites.
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Alternative form of White Friar [A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order.]
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Alternative form of Xaverian [A member of the Xaverian Brothers, a religious order founded in Bruges, Belgium 1839 and dedicated to Catholic education.]
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(historical) In Mexico, a member of a Masonic lodge belonging to the York Rite, as opposed to the Scottish Rite.
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