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mynster

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
mynster, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§109;
a monastery, a place where a body of monks or of nuns resided
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a church, minster (v. mynster-clǽnsung)
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Etymology
[
Laym. munster a monastery
:
Orm. i þeȝȝre minnstre (the temple, cf. i þe kirrke, 1099), 1017
:
O. H. Ger. munustiri monasterium.
From the Latin.
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v. heáfod-, nunn-mynster.
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  • mynster, n.