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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
pri·o·ry
[prahy-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key
[prahy-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -ries.
| a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| pri·or·y
(prī'ə-rē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. pri·or·ies A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
priory
priory
c.1290, from Anglo-Fr. priorie (c.1240), from M.L. prioria "monastery governed by a prior," from L. prior (see prior (n.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| priory | |
noun | |
| religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Priory
Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. Syn: See Cloister.
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