[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

priory \pri"ory\, n.; pl. priories. cf. ll. prioria. see
   prior, n.
   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.
   1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
      monastery in some other country.
      1913 webster

   syn: see cloister.
        1913 webster
see also:
priories prior cell obedience cell alien priory 
cloister 

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