Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Franciscan friar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Franciscan friar; a Minor. See
minor , n., 4. - Belonging to the Franciscans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Franciscan friar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In Eifelheim, of course, Joachim the Minorite obviously prefers the feast of the Stigmata and Dietrich chooses to celebrate this then-new feast as a gesture of hospitality to his guest.
September 18th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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The kind Chevalier prefaced it by saying, that he was for the present boarding in the Minorite convent at Brussels; that he had thoughts of making his salut there, and retiring for ever from the world, devoting himself to the severest practices of religion.
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I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Minorite, namely Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini, sent with certaine associates vnto the Tartars, who likewise (as himselfe witnesseth) abode and conuersed with them a yeere and three moneths at the least.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Minorite, namely Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini, sent with certaine associates vnto the Tartars, who likewise (as himselfe witnesseth) abode and conuersed with them a yeere and three moneths at the least.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She gave a precise description of the place, and some time afterwards the writer found to his great astonishment an account by the Minorite friar
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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Who was its author is very doubtful, but the probabilities are in favour of Thomas de Celano, a Minorite friar, who lived during the second half of the fourteenth century.
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In 1243 a Ferrara writer was at Padua, and while attending vespers at the tomb where the sainted body of the Minorite
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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An inscription in the sacristy of the church states that it was made by a devout Minorite of wood from the
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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