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Webster 1913 Edition
Priory
Pri′o-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Priories
(#)
. 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. ☞ 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.
Alien priory
, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.
Syn. – See
Cloister
. Webster 1828 Edition
Priory
PRI'ORY
,Noun.
1.
Priories are the churches given to priors in titulum, or by way of title.