The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frater \Fra"ter\, n. [L., a brother.] (Eccl.)
A monk; also, a frater house. [R.]
--Shipley.
Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A monk. 2 A frater house.
Usage examples of "frater".
To my Cherkess students, it seems, I stand in loco frateri as a surrogate elder.
Tamen Senones, quae est civitas in primis firma et magnae inter Gallos auctoritatis, Cavarinum, quem Caesar apud eos regem constituerat, cuius frater Moritasgus adventu in Galliam Caesaris cuiusque maiores regnum obtinuerant, interficere publico consilio conati, cum ille praesensisset ac profugisset, usque ad fines insecuti regno domoque expulerunt et, missis ad Caesarem satisfaciendi causa legatis, cum is omnem ad se senatum venire iussisset, dicto audientes non fuerunt.
A pious churchman might, who hoped to see them become deacons and fraters in their turn who could minister to their countryfolk and thus bring their heathen relatives into the Light.
Et tuquoque frater meus facta mala quod fecisti Denique confundit Deus omnes res quas tetegisti.
The other fraters are now in the fields and will not return until afternoon devotions.
It surprised me that there should be sorors as well as fraters in this House of Skulls, but perhaps she was a servant, for the place was impeccably clean.
One of the lesser fraters, pendantless, goes to a niche in the wall and takes out a slender book, elaborately bound in glittering red morocco, which he hands to Frater Antony.
Frater Antony, who clapped it over his face, as one of the other Fraters with pendants came forward to fasten a thong in the rear.
Each of the other fraters has his special role to play, but we have not yet had occasion to meet with them.
Like the fraters, the women all are garbed alike, in brief white frocks rather than ragged blue shorts.
The fraters raise all their food themselves, in a garden about two hundred yards behind the building.
The fraters also produce certain mildly alcoholic herb-liqueurs, under the supervision of Frater Maurice, the distiller-frater.
The rest of us, both fraters and the Receptacle, go to our rooms and bathe again.
The fraters who squat beside us on the hilltop presumably are doing such shunting now.
And then we eat our lunch, and then we meditate on the cold stone floor of our rooms, each by himself, and then we go out and sweat for the fraters in the fucking fields.