[f. FRIAR sb. + -HOOD.] = FRATERNITY.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 259. By the Canon-Law even Abbots and Priors may excommunicate their Monks for Disobedience to their Commands; and and if they become incorrigible thereby, they may be expelld and turnd out of the Society of the Fryar-hood.