单词 | prior conventual |
释义 | > as lemmasprior conventual 1. Christian Church. A superior officer of a religious house or order. (a) In an abbey (more fully prior claustral): the deputy of an abbot, appointed to exercise certain authority, maintain discipline, and preside over the monastery in his absence. Also (more fully prior conventual): the resident superior in a smaller or daughter monastery. (b) The superior or head of a house of Canons Regular (Augustinians, Arroasians, and originally Premonstratensians). (c) The superior of a house of Friars.In monastic cathedrals, in which the bishop took the place of abbot, the prior was the actual working head of the abbey. The position of prior is retained in some cathedrals as an honorary title, reflecting their historical links with religious orders.See also Grand Prior n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > prior > [noun] provostOE priorOE prévôt1483 prepositor1881 OE Wulfstan II of Worcester in B. Thorpe Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici (1865) 445 Hine God geuferade þæt he wearð prior & fæder þæs bufan cweðenan mynstres. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Næfre ne luueden hi munece regol, ac wæron æfre togænes muneces & here regol, and se prior & se munecas of Cantwarabyrig. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Þa priores muneces & canonias þa wæron on ealle þa cellas on Englaland. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 130 A, weila..ȝef ei is imong ow þe geað i singularite..ut of þe floc þet is as in a cloistre þet iesu is heh priur ouer. c1300 St. Patrick's Purgatory (Laud) 642 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 219 And þe prior with procession to þe ȝate comez. c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) 356 (MED) Þe first chirche..Was seyn Iames in galis Þat he lete arere, Wiþ an hundred chanouns & her priour. c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 171 Þat one after þat oþer was i-made priour in þe forseide place and afterward archebisshop of Canturbury. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 350 (MED) Þer [sc. the friars'] ordre lettiþ þes but ȝif þei han þer priours leeve. 1455 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 287 The Priowrys of the fowre Orderys of Freyerys. 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere viii. p. cccccxxxii In the same house whereof I was mayster and pryour. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 238 Laurence his successor, brought Monkes into the house, the head whereof was called a Pryor, whiche woord..was in deede but the name of a second officer, bicause the Bishop himselfe was accompted the very Abbat. 1640 Acts Parl. Scotl. V. 260/1 All former laws..mad in favouris of..beshopis archbeshopis abbotis pryoris or other prelatis. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iv. xxi. 379 The general Chapters, or the Visitors of the same Orders, shall appoint Priors-claustral, or Sub-Priors, in the Priories in which there is a Convent, to exercise Corrections and Spiritual Government. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 343 It [sc. a Lutheran convent] consists of an abbot, a prior, and four conventuals. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 299 The archbishop sent his comptroller to the Prior of Christ Church. 1880 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1713 It was the rule for the prior to be elected from among the inmates of the monastery. 1901 J. T. Fowler in Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham III. Introd. p. iii In Durham, as in Winchester, Ely, and other monastic Cathedrals, the Bishop was the honorary and titular head, while the true head of the house was the Prior. 1995 Daily Tel. 20 Nov. 23/1 A Roman Catholic monk has been installed as Prior of Chester Cathedral. < as lemmas |
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