Friar Minor
a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis.
Origin of Friar Minor
1- Compare capuchin (def. 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
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How to use Friar Minor in a sentence
Overpowered with dread, he said he was a Friar Minor; but they said, “You lie, for you do not walk barefooted.”
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake JamesWhat should he say of that Friar Minor, the famous preacher of S——, who had been found dead of a surfeit of melons and white wine?
Little Novels of Italy | Maurice Henry HewlettIt remains for us to give an account of the academic, or rather scholastic career of a Friar Minor at Oxford.
The Grey Friars in Oxford | Andrew G. LittleThere were to be annually elected two rectors, the one a Friar Minor, the other a secular.
Cambridge and its Story | Charles William Stubbs
British Dictionary definitions for Friar Minor
Christianity a member of either of two of the three orders into which the order founded by St Francis of Assisi came to be divided, namely the Order of Friars Minor and the Order of Friars Minor Conventual: Compare Capuchin
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