English-Thai Dictionary

priory

N สำนัก ศาสนา  sam-nak-sad-sa-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIORY

n.A convent of which a prior is the superior; in dignity below an abbey. 1. Priories are the churches given to priors in titulum, or by way of title.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIORY

Pri "o *ry, n.; pl. Priories. Etym: [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

priory

pri o ry |ˈprīərē ˈpraɪ (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. priories ) a small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress. ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior ‘elder, superior ’ (see prior 2 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

priory

pri ¦ory |ˈprʌɪəri | ▶noun ( pl. priories ) a small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress. ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior ‘elder, superior ’ (see prior 2 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

priory

priory noun the sisters of this priory are famous for their spinning and weaving: religious house, abbey, cloister; monastery, friary; convent, nunnery.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

priory

priory noun religious house, religious community, abbey, cloister; monastery, friary; convent, nunnery; rare coenobium, coenoby, beguinage.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

priory

pri o ry /prá (ɪ )əri /名詞 複 -ries C 〘キリスト教 〙小修道院 〘修道士 [女 ]のための施設; abbeyより小さい 〙; 〖集合的に 〗(そこに住む )修道士 [女 ]たち .