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friar [Lat. frater=brother], member of certain Roman Catholic religious orders, notably, the Dominicans Dominicans (dəmĭn`ĭkənz), Roman Catholic religious order, founded by St.
..... Click the link for more information. , Franciscans Franciscans (frănsĭs`kənz), members of several Roman Catholic religious orders following the rule of St.
..... Click the link for more information. , Carmelites Carmelites (kär`məlīts), Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars.
..... Click the link for more information. , and Augustinians Augustinians, religious order in the Roman Catholic Church. The name derives from the Rule of St. Augustine (5th cent.?), which established rules for monastic observance and common religious life.
..... Click the link for more information. . Although a general form of address in the New Testament, since the 13th cent. it has been used to describe members of orders forbidden to hold property. They are called mendicants because they were expected to work or, as later developed, beg for a living and were not bound to a particular monastery. The Council of Trent loosened the restriction on property ownership. Friars differ from cloistered, contempletive monks by their widespread outside activity and by their highly centralized organization. See monasticism monasticism (mənăs`tĭsĭzəm, mō–)
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a member of any of various chiefly mendicant religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church, the main orders being the Black Friars (Dominicans), Grey Friars (Franciscans), White Friars (Carmelites), and Austin Friars (Augustinians)

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