Fran·cis·can

(frăn-sĭs′kən)

A member of an originally mendicant Roman Catholic 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 Franciscānus, from Medieval Latin Franciscus, from Saint Francis of Assisi.]

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Franciscan

(frænˈsɪskən)

(Christian Churches, other)

a. a member of any of several Christian religious orders of mendicant friars or nuns tracing their origins back to Saint Francis of Assisi; a Grey Friar

b. (as modifier): a Franciscan friar.

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Fran•cis•can

(frænˈsɪs kən)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to St. Francis or the Franciscans.

2. a member of the mendicant order founded by St. Francis in the 13th century.

[1585–95; < Medieval Latin Francisc(us) + -an1]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Franciscan - 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"

Translations

francescano

Franciscan

[frænˈsɪskən]

A. ADJ → franciscano

B. N → franciscano/a m/f

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Franciscan

n → Franziskaner(in) m(f)

adj → Franziskaner-; Franciscan monk/monastery → Franziskanermönch m → /-kloster nt

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The Franciscans immediately succeeded the Jesuits, and subsequently the Dominicans; but the latter managed their affairs ill.

There are about twenty-one missions in this province, most of which were established about fifty years since, and are generally under the care of the Franciscans. These exert a protecting sway over about thirty-five thousand Indian converts, who reside on the lands around the mission houses.

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Now she entered the church depressed and humiliated, not even able to remember whether it was built by the Franciscans or the Dominicans.

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I charge thee to return, and change thy shape; Thou art too ugly to attend on me: Go, and return an old Franciscan friar; That holy shape becomes a devil best.

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There were portraits of men with large, melancholy eyes which seemed to say you knew not what; there were long monks in the Franciscan habit or in the Dominican, with distraught faces, making gestures whose sense escaped you; there was an Assumption of the Virgin; there was a Crucifixion in which the painter by some magic of feeling had been able to suggest that the flesh of Christ's dead body was not human flesh only but divine; and there was an Ascension in which the Saviour seemed to surge up towards the empyrean and yet to stand upon the air as steadily as though it were solid ground: the uplifted arms of the Apostles, the sweep of their draperies, their ecstatic gestures, gave an impression of exultation and of holy joy.

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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: Veramente, queste rotisserie sono cosa stupenda !* But Jehan had not the wherewithal to buy a breakfast, and he plunged, with a profound sigh, under the gateway of the Petit-Châtelet, that enormous double trefoil of massive towers which guarded the entrance to the City.

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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.

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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.

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Karen wrote that her complaints were dismissed by a number of the school's Franciscans, including Fr.

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The Franciscans are committed to making the memory of this meeting ever more fruitful, seeing this as a necessary counterbalance to the political and environmental crises that characterize our era.'

FRANCISCANS MARK 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING

Mimi was a member of the Secular Franciscans for 52 years as well as being charitable director of the Franciscan Outreach Program in Chicago for 15 years.

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Maps of the Danube river basin and provinces of Franciscans and Jesuits have not only significant cultural but also historic value.A set of historic maps of the Hungarian monarchy, specifically the Danube river basin and provinces of Franciscans and Jesuits, became the most significant addition to the Old Art Collection in the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) last year.

Unique maps enrich collection of Slovak National Gallery