| 单词 | sister minoress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSister Minoress A Franciscan nun of the second order; a Poor Clare. Also Sister Minoress (chiefly in plural, in the names of Franciscan institutions). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] > Poor Clare Minoress1395 Clare1608 1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 7 The Religiouse Wommen, the Menouresses dwellyngge withoute algate of london. 1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 224/1 The Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate. a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 81 Þe Abbes & þe couent of sustris Menowressis enclosid of þe monestre of oure ladi of þe diocise of Paris. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 755 These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare, and called Minoresses. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 87/2 They were called Clares or Minoresses. 1823 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham III. 84 It appears that Catharine became a sister minoress of the house of Brisyerd, in Suffolk. 1897 Catholic Dict. (ed. 5) 726/2 The first monastery of Franciscan nuns or Minoresses formed in England (1293) was outside Aldgate. 1926 E. Hutton Franciscans in Eng. vi. 96 The Second Order of Franciscans was that for women, which S. Chiara,..called the Ordo Dominarum pauperum of Poor Ladies..while in England the nuns were known as Minoresses. 1986 Universe 20 June 33/4 Franciscan Minoresses..pray with the Church, live in community,..teach and nurse. < as lemmas |
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