| Pronunciation: | | 'prIuree
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| Matching Terms: | | prior, prior(a), --prior., priorate, prioress, prioritise, prioritize, priority, priority interrupt, priority inversion, priority mail, priority processing, priority queue, priority scheduling, priorly, priorship
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| | Definition: | | [n] religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress |
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| | See Also: | | cloister, religious residence |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. {Priories}. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
{Prior}, n.]
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and
called also {cell}, and {obedience}. See {Cell}, 2.
Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the
prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as
independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where
the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior
was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
{Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
Syn: See {Cloister}.
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