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.
Any religious house administered by a prior or prioress. If the prior was subject to a resident abbot, the house is called an abbey or monastery. The title prioress is held in certain religious houses for women. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms) Related terms: Prior
Any religious house administered by a prior or prioress. If the prior was subject to a resident abbot, the house was called an abbey or monastery. The title prioress was held in certain religious houses for women. See also monastery.
religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
a monastery or monastic dependency whose superior is a prior
a religious house or order
a monastery or nunnery dependent on an ABBEY or Cathedral.
A house for missionary priests. Often, priests living in a priory would travel hundreds of miles each Sunday to say Mass in scattered areas throughout a missionary territory.
monastery in the charge of a prior rather than an abbot.
a monastery; in the Benedictine orders a house dependent upon an abbey; in certain orders such as the Augustinians or the mendicant orders, any religious house
another word for monastery, a place lived in by monks
A Priory is a monastic house run by a prior rather than an abbot.
A religious house governed by a prior, sometimes being subordinate to an abbey.
A monastic community of monks or nuns run by a prior or prioress and the buildings they occupy
A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior or prioress.
