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Definition of Friarly
1. a. Like a friar; inexperienced.
Definition of Friarly
1. Adjective. Befitting a friar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Friarly
1. friar [adj] - See also: friar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friarly
Literary usage of Friarly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"So also, friarly and friary, except that the latter is used as a noun, ...
and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract лот friarly contempt of them. ..."
2. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, Terms & Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"To FAST ; now used in the friarly sense of to abstain from food; seems, fu vast;
qe it behoves you to be firm, stedfast, to rely upon yourself; ..."
3. The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon, Clark Sutherland Northup (1908)
"Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. But distinguish, as Cicero
saith 4 well of Rabi- rius Posthumus, In studio rei ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... but otherwise and most commonly (upon his name altered at the alteration of
state into friarly profession) called Roger Bacon: who at large wrote ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. But distinguish, as Cicero
saith well of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio rei ..."
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