[Xún shān yǐn xiū huì, ㄒㄩㄣˊ ㄕㄢ ㄧㄣˇ ㄒㄧㄡ ㄏㄨㄟˋ, 郇山隐修会 / 郇山隱修會] Priory of Zion (fictional masonic order) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Priory \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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
{Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: See {Cloister}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
priory
n 1: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a
convent governed by a prioress
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