Friar Minor


noun,plural Friars Minor.Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis.

Origin of Friar Minor

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First recorded in 1200–50; see origin at friar, minor

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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.”

  • What 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 Hewlett
  • It 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. Little
  • There 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

Friar Minor

nounplural Friars Minor
  1. 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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