What's the difference between friar and friary?

Friar


Definition:

  • (n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
  • (n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
  • (n.) An American fish; the silversides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cotton had 36 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals for the Friars and it all ended up being for naught as No.
  • (2) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
  • (3) Leicester city and Leicestershire county council are hoping for a Plantaganet tourism bonanza once the new visitor centre opens on 26 July, 100 yards from the cathedral and overlooking the site of his original resting place, the site of the demolished Grey Friars church.
  • (4) Why it's special For the painter John Ruskin, Keswick was almost too beautiful to live in; while the view from Friar's Crag was one of the three loveliest in Europe.
  • (5) Founder Shane Long, who set up shop here in 1998, boasts that the range of beers brewed on site, including a clove and banana-imbued German wheat beer called Friar Weisse, are entirely free of preservatives.
  • (6) "The Friars Club roasts used to be closed to women," Essman explains, "until Phyllis Diller broke in 20 years ago.
  • (7) In his book A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Native Americans by the Spanish Missions, Castillo doesn’t mince words when he describes the missions as “death camps run by friars where thousands of California’s Indians perished.” In letters, Serra wrote that he considered the indigenous population to be “barbarous pagans,” and that only Catholicism could save them from evil.
  • (8) 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".
  • (9) Friar's Crag will have a special significance for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
  • (10) Grey Friars car park, Leicester, where the remains of King Richard III were found.
  • (11) Roasts began in the 1920s at the Friars Club in New York – a Broadway haven for performers, publicists and reviewers that held tribute dinners to celebrate members' careers.
  • (12) But the Friars fought for me, Larry saw me and said, 'Yes.
  • (13) This time the team is applying to the Home Office for an exhumation licence for a lead-lined stone sarcophagus, which they believe holds the undisturbed remains of Sir William Moton, believed to have been buried at Grey Friars in 1362.
  • (14) Notably, one friar has publicly expressed his concern about how the issue has been handled over recent months and another has stressed that Maltese law must see to the needs of all its citizens, Catholic or otherwise.
  • (15) The mechanical digger was still chewing the tarmac off the council car park, identified by years of research by local historians and the Richard III Society as the probable site of the lost church of Grey Friars, whose priests bravely claimed the body of the king and buried him in a hastily dug grave, probably still naked, but in a position of honour near the high altar of their church.
  • (16) At Oxford, I'd been the film critic on the university newspaper; when I met him, Ken was this innocent Friar Tuck character who had seen every film ever made.
  • (17) "The Sheriff is more precarious and unpredictable than ever with new threats looming over him and there's the much-anticipated arrival of Friar Tuck, who joins the gang and becomes one of Robin's closest allies," the BBC added.
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) We present three cases of trichotillomania demonstrating the "tonsure pattern" or "Friar Tuck sign" and onychophagia (nail-biting), which we describe as clinical identifying features of this syndrome.
  • (20) • North Mall, franciscanwellbrewery.com , Friar Weisse €4.80 a pint Oslo Bar, Galway Locals Jason O'Connell and Niall Walsh already owned three Galway boozers before opening the town's only microbrewery in 2009.

Friary


Definition:

  • (n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
  • (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.
  • (n.) The institution or praactices of friars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos.
  • (2) Most persuasive for Leicester, however, may be the argument that the decision has already been made by an English monarch: in 1485, Richard's successor, Henry VII, would have likely overseen the disposal of the royal corpse and approved the burial site at Greyfriars Friary.
  • (3) It's played not through hi-fi speakers or by a practising musician, but a group of children from Faith primary school, sitting on little chairs in the great Victorian space of what was the church of St Mary of the Angels in West Everton – deconsecrated and nowadays known as the Friary.
  • (4) Music is integral to the school week, culminating in the Friday night at the Friary music club.
  • (5) But it couldn't have gone to better use, like we've held on to the Friary – a little bit of God's work still here."

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