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FRANCISCA
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Spanish
Spanish pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisca, PAQUITA means "French."
Female
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Romani form of Latin Francisca, JOFRANKA means "French."
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Frenchwoman; Free; From France
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Irish
The Irish form of Francis, a name originating from the figure of St. Francis of Assisi. The name means “â€little French manâ€â€ and was popularised in Ireland by the Franciscans whose founder was St. Francis of Assisi. The Celts would have been responsive to the stories of St. Francis’s attitude to birds and animals.
Female
Spanish
 Feminine form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisco, FRANCISCA means "French." Compare with another form of Francisca.
Female
Spanish
Spanish pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisca, PACA means "French."
Boy/Male
Irish
The Irish form of Francis, a name originating from the figure of St. Francis of Assisi. The name means “â€little French manâ€â€ and was popularised in Ireland by the Franciscans whose founder was St. Francis of Assisi. The Celts would have been responsive to the stories of St. Francis’s attitude to birds and animals.
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Free.
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Irish
The Irish form of Francis, a name originating from the figure of St. Francis of Assisi. The name means “â€little French manâ€â€ and was popularised in Ireland by the Franciscans whose founder was St. Francis of Assisi. The Celts would have been responsive to the stories of St. Francis’s attitude to birds and animals.
Girl/Female
Spanish
A dimunitive of Francisca, derived from the Latin Francis, meaning French, from France, or free one.
Female
Spanish
Pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisca, CHICA means "French."
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n.
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
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A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
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A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
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A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
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A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
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One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
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A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
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Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
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See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
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A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
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A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.
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The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
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A Franciscan friar.
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A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
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A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
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A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.