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▪ I. frater1 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈfreɪtə(r)|
Forms: 3 freitore, 4 freitur, -our, 4–5 freytour, frature, 4–6 frai-, fraytour, (5 freytowre, 6 fratour), 5–7 frayter, (5–6 frai-, fraytre, 6 fratre, fratter, froyter), 5– frater.
[a. OF. fraitur, short for refreitor, repr. med.L. refectōrium refectory.]
The eating or refreshment room of a monastery; a refectory.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 286/282 Seint Domenic axede of þe freitore: ȝwat is þi dede þere. c1325Poem Times Edw. II, 171 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 331 He shal into the freitur and ben i-mad ful glad. c1420Chron. Vilod. 995 And after in to þe fraytre þo come he. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xxxii. (1869) 193 Þer was þer inne cloystre and dortour, chirche chapitre and freytour. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 241/2 There cam two yong men of y same habite and forme whiche entrid in to y⊇ refectory or fraitour. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 34 The church was shott in from monday unto thursday, and the servys and masse sayd and songe in the fratter. 1556Withals Dict. 64 A fraiter or place to eate meate in, refectorium. 1883Athenæum 24 Feb. 255/1 At Westminster..only the frater and the chapel of the infirmary have been formally dismantled.
b. attrib. and Comb., as frater-wall; frater-house = fratry 1.
1546in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 183 For takyng downe of the roof of y⊇ fraterhowse of Abynton. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 69 b, A roode there was upon the frayter wall in the monastery. 1844F. A. Paley Church Restorers 25 Not less than one hundred brethren dined at once in this noble frater house.
Hence † ˈfraterer, the monk who has charge of the refectory. Also in fem. form and sense.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xlv. (1869) 197 She that hath þe gorgiere is ladi and freytoureere [F. refecturiere]. 1483Cath. Angl. 141/2 Frayturer, refectorarius.
▪ II. ‖ frater2|ˈfreɪtə(r)|
[L. frāter brother.]
†1. A friar. Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xi. 46 The sayd Frater hadde brought with him a great bottle. 1639Ld. G. Digby Lett. Relig. (1651) 78 As well furnished..as you may imagine some good Fraters closet in Spain..is with the works of Calvin, or Luther.
†2. Cant. (See quots.) Obs.
1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 4 A Frater goeth wyth a like Lisence to beg for some Spittlehouse or Hospital. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush ii. i, And these, what name or title e'er they bear, Frater, or abram-man. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 77 Fraters are such, who with a Counterfeit Patent, beg for some Hospital or Spittle-house.
3. A brother, comrade. Also attrib.
1794Burns Bard's Epitaph ii, Is there a Bard of rustic song, Who, noteless, steals the crowds among, O, pass not by! But, with a frater-feeling strong, Here, heave a sigh. 18..Blackie Death Columba 38, I am come to bless my people, Faithful fraters, ere I die. |