单词 | confrater |
释义 | confratern. A member of a brotherhood. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > member schoolmanOE fellowc1300 member?a1400 confrater1583 associationist1845 society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] friarc1290 confrater1583 frater1585 bungie-bird1591 friarship1708 frate1722 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D7v They..will not sticke to sweare, and take on (as the other their confraters before). a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Rutl. 348 The old Bead-house in that Town, for a Warden, Confrater, twelve poor old men. 1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 233 I told this French Father, That the Monks his Confraters had done very well, etc. 1897 E. L. Taunton Eng. Black Monks I. 61 He was then received to the kiss of peace by all the convent, and was entered in the chart as a confrater. 1900 F. A. Gasquet Eve of Reform. 28 Sir Thomas More, no doubt through his father's connection with the monastery of Christchurch, Canterbury, of which house he was a ‘confrater’, became a student at the monks' college at Oxford. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark 35 But the other, the old man with the small white beard?.. Doubtless a confrater, or lay member of the Abbey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1583 |
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