Unpolished, a frapler, and base.
B. Jonson.
||Fra"ter, n. [L., a brother.] (Eccl.) A monk; also, a frater house.
||[R.] Shipley.
Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a
refectory; -- called also a fratery.
Fra*ter"nal (?), a.[F. fraternel, LL. fraternalis, fr. L. fraternus,
fr. frater brother. See Brother.] Of, pertaining to, or involving,
brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a
fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv.
An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war.
Milton.
Fraternal love and friendship.
Addison.
Fra*ter"nate (?), v. i. To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.
{ Fra`ter*na"tion (?), Fra"ter*nism (?) }, n. Fraternization. [R.]
Jefferson.
Fra*ter"ni*ty (?), n.; pl. Fraternities (#). [F. fraternitÈ, L.
fraternitas.] 1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly;
brotherhood.
2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or
pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic
Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving
the sick and destitute, etc.