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‖ conˈfrater [a. med.L. confrāter: see confrere.] A member of a brotherhood.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 24 [They] will not sticke to sweare, and take on (as the other their confraters before). a1661Fuller Worthies ii. 348 The old Bead-house in that Town, for a Warden, Confrater, twelve poor old men. 1691tr. Emilianne's Obs. Journ. Naples 233, I told this French Father, That the Monks his Confraters had done very well, etc. 1897Taunton 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. 1900Gasquet Eve 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. 1931J. 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. |