nonce-wd. [f. FRIAR sb. + -SHIP.] A mock title applied to a friar or monk.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lxvi. (1737), 272. This rash hair-brain’d Devil of a Fryar fears nothing, but ventures and runs on like a mad Devil as he is, and cares not a Rush what becomes of others; as if every one was a Monk like his Fryarship.
