Found 3 items, similar to priory.
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Definition: priory
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Definition: priory
priory
n : religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a
convent governed by a prioress
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Priory
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.
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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.
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Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
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Syn: See
Cloister.
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