(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.
Prior
Definition:
(a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
(a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(2) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(3) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(4) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(7) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(8) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(9) The number of gastrin-immunoreactive cells actually decreases just prior to weaning but then increases at and after, weaning.
(10) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) A direct radioimmunoassay method using highly specific antisera without prior deconjugation has been developed for determination of estradiol 17-glucuronide and estriol 16-glucuronide in human plasma.
(13) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
(14) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) The flow cytometric measured DNA content (i.e., DNA index), S-fractions, and histopathologic malignancy grades were studied for ninety uterine cervical squamous cell carcinomas using tissue biopsies taken prior to radiotherapy.
(19) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(20) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.