Black Friarn.
/ˈblak frʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈblæk ˌfraɪr/ 1. A member of the Dominican order of friars.The order was founded at the beginning of the 13th cent. by St Dominic and characterized by a black cloak or outer habit.
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Jacobina1325
preacher?c1335
Black Friar1417
Dominicc1540
Jacobitea1563
preaching friar1598
Dominicana1632
cherubic1826
cherubic friar1826
thong-wearer1901
1417 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 138 (MED) A lode tymber fro Drewys to yo Blak frers vj d.
1443 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1916) II. 179 The twa markis of annual that the blak freris of Striveling has of the landis of Menstry.
c1500 God spede Plough (Lansd.) l. 55 in W. W. Skeat Pierce Ploughman's Crede (1873) 71 Then commeth the blak freres.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 95 The bysshopp of Rochester, Morys, that was some tyme a blacke freere.
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 328 Peter Kenefield, a Dominicane or a blacke Frier.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 270 Of these Dominicans were the first Fryers, which came over into England, Anno 1221..they were commonly called Black Fryers, Preaching Fryers, and Jacobine Fryers.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 213 John de Coloribus, who by birth was an Out-lander, and by profession a Black-Fryar.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xviii. 183 The Dominicans..were formerly in our Country called Black Friars, from the Colour of their Cloak or outward Habit.
1816 T. J. Howell Stranger in Shrewsbury 130 The Dominicans, or Black Friars, were called in some places Jacobins, and in others Predicants.
1852 H. Melville Pierre xix. 364 Not a single Black Friar, but many a pickpocket, has stood on that bank.
1900 M. H. Potter Uncanonized ix. 161 They looked up for a moment when Anthony entered, distantly saluting the black friar as he sat down.
1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) iv. 92 Order after order founded its house at Oxford; the Grey Friars, the Black Friars,..and the Crossed Friars soon became..familiar figures.
1992 Times (Nexis) 29 Feb. Some monks, and notably a Black Friar..who had been his chief accuser, urged the dying martyr to recant.
2. In plural, usually with the. The quarters of the Dominican friars in a particular town or city. Cf. friary n. In later use frequently as proper noun.
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c1450 C. L. Kingsford Hist. Coll. 15th Cent. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) 29 514 (MED) In the same yere was the parlement atte Westmynster, and at the blak frires.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 212 This king Richert..was erdit in the blak freris of Striuling.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. l. 5485 The Erle off Ros..At the Blak Freris had thare herbry.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 139 The most conuenient place, that I can thinke of For such receipt of Learning, is Black-Fryers . View more context for this quotation
1666 Faithful Annalist in Mariner′s Mirror (1911) 1 191/2 This year [sc. 1544]..the Grey Frier′s Church in London was laid full of wine, and the Austen Friers and Black Friers were laid full of herrings.
1790 J. Byng Diary 23 Sept. in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 165 The old gateway of The Blackfriars,..mouldering with age, has been but lately taken down.
1883 Norfolk Directory 486 The [Grammar] School was originally kept in the fratory of the Blackfriars.
1999 Oxoniensia 63 4 Small-scale excavations also established the line and character of the Anglo-Saxon..religious houses such as the Blackfriars and Rewley Abbey.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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