01 A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; …
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A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.(Eccl.) Also: predicant, preaching friar, Jacobin
Syn.
Dominican.