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Franciscan

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Fran·cis·can  (frn-sskn)
n. Roman Catholic Church
A member of an originally mendicant religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209 and dedicated to the virtues of humility and poverty. It is now divided into three independent branches.
adj.
Of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him.
[New Latin Franciscnus, from Medieval Latin Franciscus, from Saint Francis of Assisi.]
Franciscan
Noun
a member of a Christian religious order of friars or nuns founded by Saint Francis of Assisi
Adjective
of this order
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Noun1.FranciscanFranciscan - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
Grey Friar
Franciscan order - a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century
friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
Adj.1.Franciscan - of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him; "Franciscan monks"


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Vincy, the mayor, a florid man, who would have served for a study of flesh in striking contrast with the Franciscan tints of Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
As he passed the Rue de la Huchette, the odor of those admirable spits, which were incessantly turning, tickled his olfactory apparatus, and he bestowed a loving glance toward the Cyclopean roast, which one day drew from the Franciscan friar, Calatagirone, this pathetic exclamation:
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The Dominican and Franciscan friars, also, who had come to England in the thirteenth century, soon after the foundation of their orders in Italy, and who had been full at first of passionate zeal for the spiritual and physical welfare of the poor, had now departed widely from their early character and become selfish, luxurious, ignorant, and unprincipled.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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