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    BLACK FRIAR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican orderplay

    Synonyms:

    Black Friar; Blackfriar; Dominican; friar preacher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("Black Friar" is a kind of...):

    friar; mendicant (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Girolamo Savonarola; Savonarola (Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498))

    Holonyms ("Black Friar" is a member of...):

    Dominican order (a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century)

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