Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brother; a friar; a monk.
- noun One who assumes the garb and character of a begging friar. See the extracts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.), rare A monk; also, a frater house.
- noun an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a
fratery .
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- noun A
monk . - noun A
frater house .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Norman refectory or "frater" was demolished in 1246, and the new one begun.
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Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Not until the porter had shown forth all the curiosities and beauties of his church to the visitor did he hand Cadfael over to the hospitaller, to be furnished with a bed, and welcomed into the community at supper in the frater.
A River So Long 2010
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Poole, et frater Richardus, Henricus Poole, et duo juvenes ei familiares huc veniunt.
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Makes me think that if you went to different planets or times the animation would be different. frater gymnos from the website...
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008
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Thou mayst do this if thou wilt, pater non deperit filiam, nec frater sororem, a father dotes not on his own daughter, a brother on a sister; and why? because it is unnatural, unlawful, unfit.
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In the first of these letters Seneca hopes his brother Paul is well: “Bene te valere, frater, cupio.”
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Et ille, vidi a dextris meis puerum deosculantem vulnera manum mearum, et pedum et dicentem mihi, tu frater meus es dilectus. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Luctui dies indicebatur cum liberi nascantur, cum frater abit, amicus ab hospite captivus domum redeat, puella desponsetur.
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[2224] Da Trebio, pone ad Trebium, vis frater ab illia
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