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Definition of Priory
1. Noun. Religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
Definition of Priory
1. 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.
Definition of Priory
1. Noun. A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Priory
1. a religious house [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priory
Literary usage of Priory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"The mere description of the grey ruins of the old priory, of the windings of the
... It is almost as difficult to represent the charms of Bolton priory and ..."
2. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, Queensland Palaeontographical Society (1896)
"Exon., tit. at Tywardreath priory, pd; ... priory of Christchurch Twynham; William
Beches- funte, ... Stockbridge, tit. at Mottisfont priory, ad omn. ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1841)
"Wonder and superstitious Awe excited by the completion of the priory of St. ...
Privileges obtained from the See of Rome for the priory of St. Bartholomew . ..."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1890)
"Afterward it came to be a priory of men, and those in divers ages and of severall
... (Second, a priory of Secular Canons.) The first of whome (as we finds) ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1470, Thomas, Abbot of Armagh, got the priory in commendam, ... From 1785 the
priory has been governed by secular priests appointed by the Bishop of ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1470, Thomas, Abbot of Armagh, got the priory tn ... From 1785 the priory has
been governed by secular priests appointed by the Bishop of Clogher. ..."
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