(a.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
(n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those outside Los Angeles, including San Franciscans and New Yorkers, assume some rivalry must exist between these major American cities, yet most Angelenos I know look forward to their their trips to NYC and would no sooner entertain the notion of a rivalry with San Francisco than they would a rivalry with Disneyland.
(2) Serra’s mandate only arose because the Vatican temporarily disbanded the Jesuits in 1767, and many of the mistakes he and the Franciscans made were the result of inexperience, according to Professor Starr.
(3) Round the corner was a tiny brick house called the Dwelling Place, a homeless shelter for women run by the Catholic Franciscan Sisters.
(4) From the back porch I can watch the fog roll in across the San Franciscan skyline.
(5) Campos has introduced a proposal that would make it available to any San Franciscan – male, female or transgender – who could benefit from it.
(6) I didn’t know that existed Trent Loos, farmer and radio host “I find regular Americans incredibly exotic,” the native San Franciscan said.
(7) Americans have been quick to back the nuns with protest vigils outside churches and a 50,000-strong petition, while seven groups of US Franciscan friars denounced the Vatican crackdown as "excessive".
(8) Pope Francis said on Monday his US trip in September will be limited to Washington, New York and Philadelphia and he will not go to California to canonise Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan priest who founded missions there.
(9) Accredited classics of psychedelic art – museum pieces by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and the San Franciscan poster designers – rub up against fleeting paper products that are now extinct.
(10) The Christian denominations which jointly manage the church, including the Greek Orthodox, Franciscans and Armenians, have begun a campaign to win support in their battle with Hagihon.
(11) What appalled white San Franciscans was, of course, the craziness and random nature of the killings.
(12) Serra knew he couldn’t keep California a Franciscan mission protectorate forever.
(13) The perspective of Franciscans and Dominicans of that era was: God will punish us for the way we treat the Indians, so we’ve got to protect them as some kind of atonement,” Starr told the Guardian.
(14) "A recession calls into question our assumption that we can have it all and that we can have it now," says Hazel Buckley, a Franciscan sister.
(15) The only reason I’m here today writing this piece is because my ancestors didn’t live near any of the state’s 21 Franciscan missions.
(16) Elias Castillo , a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, spent seven years researching and reading books published by the Franciscans, which include letters written by Serra himself.
(17) Forty-two churches have been torched, and so have many other buildings: the beautiful 19th-century villa that housed the Giza governorate office on the Pyramids road, the Franciscan girls' school in Beni Sweif south of Cairo, the library of veteran journalist Mohamed Heikal on the Qanater road, and more.
(18) We’re throwing a penalty flag on Ed Lee for unnecessary roughness on the homeless.” One positive outcome from the Super Bowl, however, is the surge of support for homeless residents from housed San Franciscans.
(19) They’re only entitled to a hearing,” said André LeMay, a Franciscan Brother working in the church shelter on Monday.
(20) The food heritage which Americans enjoy today owes its great diversity to the influences of many ethnic groups--the native Indians, Franciscan friars in California, Mexican-Americans, the British, the French, the Creoles, and later, northern Europeans and those of Mediterranean stock.
Monk
Definition:
(n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
(n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
(n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
(n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
(n.) The European bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) At least 14 At least 14 monks, nuns and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan that have been focal points of opposition to central government control.
(2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(3) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
(4) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(5) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
(6) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(7) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(8) Swansea were two points above the drop zone at that time, but Monk kept them up and was handed the permanent job the following May.
(9) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(11) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(12) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
(13) That is the act of extremists," said one monk on the road near Aba.
(14) The first day I was beaten very hard and they asked: who organised the monks?
(15) Both Buddhist monks and police can be seen through much of the footage – the monks often taking part in the violence, the police watching immobile as it progresses.
(16) The aim of this study was to determine whether the austerely living Trappist and Benedictine monks have a lower prevalence of a number of risk factors and health problems than the general Dutch population.
(17) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
(18) Shelvey collected his sixth yellow card of the league season against Aston Villa on Friday following a cynical foul on Gabriel Agbonlahor – he was sent off against Everton in November after being booked twice – and Monk said the midfielder is running the risk of becoming a liability.
(19) The brains of monke guinea pigs asphyxiated at birth pletely resuscitated, and killed a ous times thereafter revealed no chial hemorrhages.
(20) On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron.