Public Domain Encyclopedia Database
Search the scanned history of knowledge.
Compare encyclopedia entries across editions, inspect page scans, and trace every article back to its source volume.
Search results
1 result for “Tertiaries”
Results are grouped by encyclopedia. Grouped by encyclopedia. Each record links to article text, topic comparison, and available source evidence.
Source family
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Tertiaries
Britannica 11thTERTIARIES (Lat. terliarii, from tertius, third), associations of lay folk in connexion with the Mendicant Orders. The old monastic orders had had attached to their abbeys confraternities of lay men and women, going back in some cases to the 8th century. The C ...
Vol. 26, pp. 660-660
OCR text aligned to scanned pages
Relevance 330.0