Definition of Priry
Pri"o*ry (?), n.; pl.
Priories (#). [Cf. LL. prioria. See
Prior, n.] 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.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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