Look up: priory

1. priory
   [n] - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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2. Priory
   a monastery or nunnery dependent on an ABBEY or Cathedral.
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3. Priory
   See monastery. Priory picture
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4. Priory
   Pri'o·ry noun ; plural Priories . [ Confer Late Latin prioria . See Prior , noun ] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and...
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5. priory
   Origin: Cf. LL. Prioria. See Prior. ... 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. ... Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed a...
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6. priory
   noun religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
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7. Priory
   • (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.
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8. priory
   priory A religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
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9. Priory
   A priory is a monastery governed by a prior. Alien priories were small conventual establishments, or cells, belonging to foreign monasteries.
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10. Priory
    A `priory` is a house of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters (as the Dominicans, Augustinians and Carmelites, for instance), or monasteries of monks or nuns (as the Carthusians). The Benedictines and...
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11. Priory
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