FRIAR
NOUNS – PERSON
► BEGGAR a mendicant friar → 1384
► BUNGIE-BIRD a contemptuous term for a friar → 1591 obs.
► JACOBIN a friar of the order of St. Dominic; a grey friar; a Dominican → 1325
► JACOBITE a friar of the order of St. Dominic; a Dominican → 1550 obs.
► PILL-PATE a friar; a shaveling → 16C colloq.
► SACKED-FRIAR a member of a mendicant order of the 13th century and early 14th century called ‘Fratres de Poenitentia Jesu Christi’ or ‘de Saccis’, who were clothed in sackcloth; a begging friar → 1400
► SACK-FRIAR a member of a mendicant order of the 13th century and early 14th century called ‘Fratres de Poenitentia Jesu Christi’ or ‘de Saccis’, who were clothed in sackcloth → 1553
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