Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English forms of
minster .
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Examples
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'And thenne the kynge and al estates wente home unto Camelot, and soo wente to evensonge to the grete mynster.
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That Botulph really did build a monastery at Icanhoe is attested by an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 654: Botulf ongan thoet mynster timbrian oet Yceanho, i.e. Botulph began to build the minster at Icanhoe.
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'Beorminster,' explained the pedantic dean, not unmoved by his listener's artificial charms, 'is derived from two Anglo-Saxon words -- Bëorh a hill, and mynster the church of a monastery.
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"And thenne the kynge and al estates wente home unto Camelot, and soo wente to evensonge to the grete mynster, and soo after upon that to souper; and every knyght sette in his owne place as they were to forehand.
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