fraternizer

[Eng. fraterniz (e); -er.] One who fraternizes or a ociates with others. "Here again I join i ue with the fraternizers , and positively deny the fact."- Burke : On a Regicide Peace, lett. 4. IMG:content-0112.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The portion or inheritance of a younger brother. 2. The partition of an estate among coheirs. frăt-ri-çel-11, fra-ti-çel-11, frăt-ri-çel-IIans, s. pl. [Low Lat. fra tri cell i little brothers; frater a brother.] Ecclesiology and Church History : 1. Gen.: Originally a name a umed in the thirteenth century by the Francis cans by direction of their founder to mark the humble character of their claims. 2. Spec.: One of the names claimed in the fourteenth century as a monopoly by the section of the Francis cans who remained true to the rigid rules of their founder when the majority of the order gradually welcomed some relaxation of their stringency. In A. D. 1317 Pope John XXII. ordered their extirpation, and many of them were cruelly put to death. The grievous offense in John's eyes was that they believed that the Pope had no right to relax the rule of St. Francis, thus prescribing limits to the papal authority. They are said to have continued to the Reformation, and embraced its doctrines. (Mosheim, .)