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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
priory
noun: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a
convent governed by a prioress
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Priory \Pri"o*ry\, noun; pl. {Priories}. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
{Prior}, noun]
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.
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.
{Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
Syn: See {Cloister}.
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