Obs. rare. Also in contracted form frap. [a. OF. frapart, f. frapper to strike.] Only in friar frapart [F. frére frappart ‘s’est dit d’un moine libertin et débauché’ (Littré)].
a. 1535. More, How Serjeant wolde lerne to be frere, 267, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 129.
| The frier frap, gate many a swap, | |
| till he was well nighe slaine. |
1600. O. E., Repl. to Libel, Ep. Ded. 3. Be they monarkes, or be they fryer frapartes. Ibid., I. i. 5. A … religion … built vpon impious popes, frier fraparts, and massing priests mouthes.
