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‖ confrairy Obs.|kənˈfrɛərɪ|
Forms: 6–8 -frary, 7 -frery, 8 -frairy.
[a. OF. confrairie, confrarie (13th c. in Littré) = Pr. confrairia, Cat. confraria, med.L. confrātria, a Romanic deriv. of confrāter, F. confrère: see confrere.]
A company of brethren of a guild, religious society, etc.; a brotherhood, fraternity.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxxii. [clxviii.] 514 No man myght entre into that confrary or company. 1596Danett tr. Comines 305 The Companies of occupations, commonly called Confrairies. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. (1634) 224 The gilds or confreries. Ibid. viii. (1628) 258 There were of old time..certaine companies or confraries of men called Gildes. 1766Smollett Trav. 242 The confrairies are fraternities of devotees who enlist them selves under the banners of some particular Saints. |