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priory |
2 definitions found 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: priory n : a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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