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monastaries

monastaries is the plural of monastary.

Meaning of monastary

Noun

monastary (plural monastaries)

  1. Erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
    • ...his reigne at the first endured very litle, for that a certayne bastard uncle of his, named Don Mauregato by help of the moores put him out, and reigned by force 6 yeares, and in the end dying with out issue, the matter came in deliberation againe, whether the king Don Alonso the chaste that yet...1594 Robert Parsons. A Conference about the Next Succession of the Crown of Ingland. p. 153

Questions about monastaries

What is monastaries the plural of?
Monastaries is the plural of monastary.

Words near monastaries in the dictionary

  1. monascidian
  2. monascidians
  3. monascin
  4. monascinol
  5. Monash
  6. monastaries
  7. monastary
  8. monaster
  9. Monasterevin
  10. monasterial
  11. monasterially

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