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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

mynster

, fr. L.

monasterium

. See

(Arch.)

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (

as Beverly

Minster

, Southwell

Minster

, etc.

), and is also improperly used for any large church.

Minster house

the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation.

Shipley.

Noun.

A monastery; an ecclesiastical convent or fraternity; but it is said originally to have been the church of a monastery; a cathedral church.