Word Meanings - FRIARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• FRIARLY
  Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.
• FRIAR
  A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. Augustines. Dominicans or Black Friars. White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
• INEXPERIENCE
  Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience
• FRIARY
  Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. Camden.
• INEXPERIENCED
  Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.
• CURTAL FRIAR
  A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.
• BLACK FRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• DISFRIAR
  To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
• WHITE FRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.