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- Franciscan - a. - Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
- Franciscan - n. - A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
- Minorite - n. - A Franciscan friar.
- Fratricelli - n. pl. - A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.
- Minoress - n. - See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
- Tertiary - n. - A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
- Cordon - n. - The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
- Capuchin - n. - A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
- Order - n. - A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
- Minor - n. - A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
- Celestinian - n. - A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.