a. Like a friar; of or pertaining to friars.
1600. O. E., Repl. to Libel, I. viii. 189. All honest men detest this frierlike fashion.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1610), 603. Their frierlike Generall would the next day … make one holyday the more in the Christian kalendars, in remembrance of 30,000 Hungarian martyrs, most miserably slaine of the Turks in vnequall battaile.
1646. P. Bulkeley, Gospel Covt., I. 24. The idle toyes, and Frier-like conceits about Purgatory drawne from hence, I passe by, as not worthy spending time about them.
