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Follower of St. Francis
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minorite
Word definitions for minorite in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minorite \Mi"nor*ite\, n. [L. minor less. Cf. 2d Minor , 3.] A Franciscan friar.
Usage examples of minorite.
Because, a few months later, when the Bavarian established his own order in Rome, Marsilius and other Minorites did to religious who were faithful to the Pope exactly what Dolcino had asked to have done.
Then there came a gray friar, or minorite, with a good paunch upon him, walking slowly and looking about him with the air of a man who was at peace with himself and with all men.
Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites, and afterward I learned that the various vicissitudes of their life had brought them, for a time, quite close to the Dolcinians.