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priory 音标拼音: [pr'ɑɪɚi] n. 小修道院 小修道院 priory n 1: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioressPriory \ Pri" o* ry\, n.; pl. { Priories}. [ Cf. LL. prioria. See { Prior}, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also { cell}, and { obedience}. See { Cell}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. [ 1913 Webster] { Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Cloister}. [ 1913 Webster]
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