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priory

/prahy-uh-ree/US // ˈpraɪ ə ri //UK // (ˈpraɪərɪ) //

牧师,牧师学院,牧师府,牧师府邸

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pri·o·ries.

    • : a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.

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Examples

  • Callahan claims that within weeks of leaving the Priory, Moss “got back on drugs.”

  • BH: Now tell me about the community of women you wrote and imagined in The Chalice—a priory of Dominican nuns.

  • The novel begins with a statement: “FACT, the Priory of Sion—a European secret society founded in 1099—is a real organization.”

  • Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate.

  • The house, Burford Priory, is a largely Jacobean mansion, hidden from view by high walls.

  • “Restoration” was begun at first under the direction of Mr. Ferrey, who also restored Christchurch Priory.

  • The next morning she was found dead among the stakes of a mill dam on the stream called the Priory River.

  • His luggage was following in a hand-cart, and he was taking the short cut through the Priory gardens.

  • Ten years afterwards—1133—Henry founded the see of Carlisle, and the priory church became the cathedral.

  • There is no reason for doubting that the various buildings were handed over in good order at the dissolution of the priory.