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Meanings of priory in English
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Examples for "priories"
Examples for "priories"
1
I don't know what travellers would do were it not for the priories.
2
There were nearly sixty monasteries, priories, hospitals, maisons-dieu, and chapels.
3
Why were parks and inclosures usually attached to priories?
4
The possessions of each langue in its native land were divided into grand priories and bailiwicks.
5
They were frequently regular ''priories,'' but sometimes only ''cells,'' and even ''granges,', with small chapels attached.
Usage of priory in English
1
The priory remained in the Lenthall family up to the year 1821.
2
They stay in the guest house of the priory for a week.
3
They rest by the side of their ancestors in the priory church.
4
The great fire in 1292 caused great destruction to the priory buildings.
5
St. Albans was no obscure priory in a remote and thinly-peopled county.
6
The extensive manor and living of Ormskirk formerly belonged to this priory.
7
At Mottisfont, four miles from Romsey, was once a priory of Augustinians.
8
Near the church is a farmhouse, once a priory of Black Friars.
9
This day my catechumen Alfgar was baptized in the priory church.
10
He then taught seminarians in the Augustinian priory in New Ross.
11
Erasmus, who visited the priory in 1511, derided its enormous wealth.
12
The bishop's cope is taken away, our priory is closed again.
13
That is the priory, and you may be sure of a welcome there.
14
They are trying, too, to suppress most of the facts concerning the priory.
15
Sister Sheila Corcoran was buried on Friday in St Dominic's priory, Port Elizabeth.
16
Lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth-thatis ever her answer.
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