What is "fraters"

Usage examples of "fraters".

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.

I hope to monitor my metabolism, reverse organic decay through mental effort, acquire the sort of cellular-level body control these fraters must have?

The prospects for attaining the longevity of the fraters suddenly seem quite bleak, though.

This room belongs to Frater Antony, and in here one may find Frater Bernard, and here Frater Javier, and here Frater Claude, and Frater Miklos, and Frater Maurice, and Frater Leon, and Frater This and Frater That, and who are these fraters, what do their names mean?

Surrounding him were four of the Fraters, the four Keepers, Fraters Antony, Miklos, Javier, and Franz.