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Recent Examples of friary
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
Put simply, the worms were much more common among the residents of the Augustinian friary.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
Put simply, the worms were much more common among the residents of the Augustinian friary.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for friary
Noun
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Founded in 1397 for hermit friars who had dedicated their life to St. Augustine, the monastery has been under the custodial care of the Augustinian order for centuries.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The monastery Mariazell owned the property, and Enea had to present his vision directly to the nuns, who had never considered leasing the land for such a purpose.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Friary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friary. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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