Priorates [noun]

It is a priorate and has a vote, but has only one religious.

The Priorate was the highest office to which a citizen could aspire, but by no means the highest in Florence.

His election to the priorate was the most important event in Dante's public life.

It is a priorate and has a vote, and one or two religious generally live there.

He always refused a priorate (although he could have obtained many, had he wished), and also the office of provincial.

After he became provincial, he left the islands with the priorate of Ibabay for that of Tigbauan.

Soon after the arrival of the said visitor, that priorate falling vacant, he appointed me to it, and for the sake of the vote.

Our father Fray Vicente chose him as his associate, and immediately gave him the priorate of Agonoy.