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Black friar   Listen
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Black friar, Blackfriar  n.  (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
Synonyms: Dominican.






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"Black friar" Quotes from Famous Books



... thick black wood Arched its cowl like a black friar's hood; Fast, and fast, and they plunged therein, — But the viewless rider rode ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... because it includes a chapter on derivations from the Greek; and a very large book, the Catholicon (c. 1286), partly a grammar and partly a dictionary, with copious quotations from Latin classics, which had been compiled with some skill and care by John Balbi, a Genoese Black Friar. Papias and Hugutio were sharply condemned by Friar Bacon, but they remained in use long after his time, and Balbi owed much to both of them. Many copies of the Catholicon seem to have been made, although the transcription of so large a book ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage



Words linked to "Black friar" :   Dominican order, Savonarola, Dominican, friar preacher, Blackfriar



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