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Friar meaning
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars). | A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking. | An American fish, the silverside.
Example sentences (20)
Friar Puccio does the penance, and meanwhile Dom Felice has a good time with Friar Puccio's wife.
See Pernoud, p. 220, which quotes appellate testimony by Friar Martin Ladvenu and Friar Isambart de la Pierre.
Singmam, 1998, Robin Hood; The Shaping of the Legend p. 62. It is commonly stated as fact that Maid Marian and a jolly friar (at least partly identifiable with Friar Tuck) entered the legend through the May Games.
Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, a 96-year-old Capuchin friar from Argentina, did not travel to Rome to receive his red hat because of his health.
La Teresa is based in the heart of the city centre at 44 Friar Street.
Lawrence Schroedel, a Catholic friar who participated in the walk, said that many abortion rights protesters misunderstand abortions, and went on to describe abortions in a medically inaccurate fashion.
Ms Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, will be the guest speaker at the campaign launch at Norbury Theatre, on Friar Street.
One video appears to show a man dressed as a friar taunting the stuck police officers and even pushing one over as they try to get out of the mud.
Prior to serving as CEO of Nextdoor, Friar was CFO of Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Square.
Taking inspiration from the Mexican lucha libre wrestling tradition and loosely based on a true story, the movie sees Black's Friar Ignacio realize his ambition to become a fully-fledged luchador.
The hospital is named after the Franciscan Friar Agostino Gemelli, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first rector of the university.
These words are burned into the minds of each and every Friar, summarizing the purpose for their being at Servite.
Three elderly cyclists are holding up the traffic and plainly not giving one Friar Tuck.
In 1473, a disgruntled Dominican friar and scribe wrote a bitter plea to the Vatican Doge: ".
When I was a young friar in the late sixties, and everything seemed to be falling apart, most of us remained in the Order because we glimpsed the radiant beauty of the Creed, the truth we do not possess but which possesses us.
Whilst the rescue was ongoing, reports came in of the unattended paddleboard around Friar’s Crag.
I have a piece coming out on some Dominican Friar sexual the house plants the house plants are dead.
In 1921, William Newbold, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who had an interest in cryptography, claimed that a 13th-century friar wrote it as a scientific treatise.
My wife is a Friar in the Church of Bacon, because it is hilarious.
The 14th-century Franciscan friar William of Ockham submitted that in order to solve problems, a theorist should begin by cutting away the hypotheses that contain unnecessary complications.