† fraryn.
Obsolete.attributive.1514 Grant in Wright Prov. Dict. at Frary My frary clark.
1. A brotherhood, fraternity.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a brotherhood
brotherhead1389
brotherhood1389
fraternity1389
frarya1400
confraternityc1475
confrairy1525
fratry?1533
order1686
brothership1691
confrérie1803
fraternal order1862
a1400 Seynt Katerine in Leg. Kath. (1840) 196 He hath me to his frari cald That schal be bot of mi bale.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 171 Swiche a frary requyrithe Goddis curs.
c1450 Cuckold's Dance 215 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. I. 47 We be all off a freyry; I ame your awne brother.
c1475 Mankind (1969) 153 Þe number of þe demonycall frayry.
1505 Will of Thomas Prowde (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 253 I bequeth to seynt Chadde frary.
2. = friary n.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > collectively
fraternityc1330
frary1514
fratry?1533
friary1538
friarhood1726
confrérie1803
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 40 All their qwarters..was burryd at Pardone church yerde in the frary.
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