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Definition of priory in English: priorynounPlural priories ˈprʌɪəriˈpraɪ(ə)ri A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress. Example sentencesExamples - After his recovery, Abelard resumed teaching at a nearby priory, primarily on theology and in particular on the Trinity.
- Now, in a determined bid to preserve the priory, fund-raisers have set about to gather the remaining £75,000 towards the £195,000 restoration.
- The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory's chapter room.
- Nostell Priory takes its name from a priory located in the vicinity for several centuries until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
- Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.
- The outcome of this initiative was probably the foundation of a Canterbury priory at Dunfermline, the first ‘regular’ Benedictine house in the Scottish kingdom.
- He was, after all, a district vicar in the Augustinian Order in charge of ten priories and a Bible professor on the theological faculty at the University of Wittenberg.
- A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory.
- The buildings were originally an Augustinian priory built in the twelfth century to which the O'Cahan clan had added a medieval tower-house.
- The site acquired by Bishop Losinga was unusually large; he envisaged not only a cathedral but also a priory for 60 Benedictine monks and an episcopal palace.
- After 1436 he worked extensively at the priory of S. Marco in Florence, and from c. 1445 was a good deal occupied in Rome, also painting in Orvieto in 1447.
- After more than a decade in storage at the priory, formed in 1189, the small pieces of glass have been worked back into the top sections of the Piper Choir Windows at the popular place of worship.
- There is much to explore here with the foundations of the monastic priory buildings still clearly visible to the south of the church.
- Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.
- Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey.
- All the concerts are set in ancient churches, abbeys and priories, with thick stonewalls, arches and vaulted domes, which provide a uniquely peaceful atmosphere and excellent acoustics.
- Lindisfarne became a place of pilgrimage during the priory's ‘golden age’ in the seventh century and all the tourism literature boasts it has remained so ever since.
- St. Gobban, around the close of the 6th century founded the first of the Christian churches here, a priory for the Canons regular.
- The priory was destroyed in the Reformation but was rebuilt as a private home in 1821 and has since housed convalescing miners, injured soldiers and, after standing empty for five years, the Buddhist community.
- Heather Sebire, the Guernsey archaeologist, has been leading a team exposing and making safe the crumbling ruins of the priory itself with its tiny church and the domestic buildings where the monks ate and slept.
Synonyms religious house, religious community, abbey, cloister monastery, friary convent, nunnery rare coenobium, coenoby, beguinage
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior 'elder, superior' (see prior2). Rhymes diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, spiry, wiry Definition of priory in US English: priorynounˈprī(ə)rēˈpraɪ(ə)ri A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress. Example sentencesExamples - The outcome of this initiative was probably the foundation of a Canterbury priory at Dunfermline, the first ‘regular’ Benedictine house in the Scottish kingdom.
- Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.
- The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory's chapter room.
- There is much to explore here with the foundations of the monastic priory buildings still clearly visible to the south of the church.
- Heather Sebire, the Guernsey archaeologist, has been leading a team exposing and making safe the crumbling ruins of the priory itself with its tiny church and the domestic buildings where the monks ate and slept.
- Lindisfarne became a place of pilgrimage during the priory's ‘golden age’ in the seventh century and all the tourism literature boasts it has remained so ever since.
- The site acquired by Bishop Losinga was unusually large; he envisaged not only a cathedral but also a priory for 60 Benedictine monks and an episcopal palace.
- A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory.
- The buildings were originally an Augustinian priory built in the twelfth century to which the O'Cahan clan had added a medieval tower-house.
- Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.
- Now, in a determined bid to preserve the priory, fund-raisers have set about to gather the remaining £75,000 towards the £195,000 restoration.
- After 1436 he worked extensively at the priory of S. Marco in Florence, and from c. 1445 was a good deal occupied in Rome, also painting in Orvieto in 1447.
- St. Gobban, around the close of the 6th century founded the first of the Christian churches here, a priory for the Canons regular.
- Nostell Priory takes its name from a priory located in the vicinity for several centuries until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
- The priory was destroyed in the Reformation but was rebuilt as a private home in 1821 and has since housed convalescing miners, injured soldiers and, after standing empty for five years, the Buddhist community.
- After more than a decade in storage at the priory, formed in 1189, the small pieces of glass have been worked back into the top sections of the Piper Choir Windows at the popular place of worship.
- All the concerts are set in ancient churches, abbeys and priories, with thick stonewalls, arches and vaulted domes, which provide a uniquely peaceful atmosphere and excellent acoustics.
- He was, after all, a district vicar in the Augustinian Order in charge of ten priories and a Bible professor on the theological faculty at the University of Wittenberg.
- Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey.
- After his recovery, Abelard resumed teaching at a nearby priory, primarily on theology and in particular on the Trinity.
Synonyms religious house, religious community, abbey, cloister
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior ‘elder, superior’ (see prior). |