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Definition of Fratery
1. n. A frater house. See under Frater.
Definition of Fratery
1. Noun. A frater-house. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fratery
1. a convent of friars [n FRATERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fratery
Literary usage of Fratery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Balmerino and Its Abbey: A Parish History with Notices of the Adjacent District by James Campbell (1899)
"The fratery, with the dormitory over it, may still be seen at ... The northern
portion of this upper story, which was over the fratery, formed the monks' ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian by David MacGibbon, Thomas Ross (1896)
"The large apartment just described was probably the fratery or monks' day room.
... South of the fratery is the slype or passage 10 feet in width, ..."
3. The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed by John Whitaker (1804)
"Thus " the fratery" at Canterbury, " in Mr. Som- " ner's manuscript-book called the
... of the whole lodging " through the fratery " to the cloister, ..."
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