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English → English (gcide) Definition: preaching friar Blackfriar \Blackfriar\, Black friar \Black" fri`ar\ (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine. Syn: Dominican. [1913 Webster]