Obs. [f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To act as a friar, play the friar.
a. 1535. More, How Serjeant would be Frere, 156, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 125.
| His heart for pride lept in his side, | |
| to see howe well he freered. |
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1892), II. 571. Witness the tale of Hans Boobikin, a rich Boor’s Son, whom his Father had sent abroad a Fryaring, that is, shroving in our Language.
2. trans. To make (a person) a friar.
1599. E. Sandys, Europæ Speculum (1632), 232. There remains nothing for a Iew converted, but to bee Friered; a trade which of all other they least can fancie, as being contrary, as they alleage, to nature it selfe, which hath made man sociable.
