monastary
monastary noun: erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Noun
monastary (plural monastaries)
- 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
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...being altogether disguised he hoped to get into the Monastary again, from whence you have heard he fled.1697 The Most Pleasing and Delightful HISTORY of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his Son. with The Morals to each Chapter, Explaining what appears Doubtful or Allegorical.
Forms of monastary
| plural | monastaries |
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Questions about monastary
- What does monastary mean?
- Monastary means erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- What part of speech is monastary?
- Monastary is a noun.
- What is the plural of monastary?
- The plural of monastary is monastaries.
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