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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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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