Crossword-Solution: ALMONRY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Almonry | n. | The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ALMONRY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Place where charity is given. | 1 answer |
| house of an almoner, usually the place where alms were given | 1 answer |
| CHARITIES, place of | 2 answers |
| treasury | 16 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ALMONRY"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
15 +1
New Suggestion for "ALMONRY"
Related word tools
Sentences with ALMONRY (5)
This place was his almonry and cloister in one: here, after looking to the feeding of his four-footed dependants, the celibate would walk and meditate of an evening till the moon’s rays streamed in through the cobwebbed windows, or total darkness enveloped the scene.
Almonry, Eleemosynary.] Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
That is not very amusing, but we expect a Carmelite from Paris who will do the duty of our almonry, and who, we are assured, speaks very well, which will keep us awake, whereas our present almoner always sends us to sleep.
Augustin at Canterbury, and other monasteries; he also informs us that the scriptorium of the monasteries had ever been the manufactory of books, and these places it is well known formed a portion of the abbeys themselves, and were not in detached buildings similar to the Almonry at Westminster, which was situated some two or three hundred yards distant from the Abbey.
His "red pale," or heraldic shield marked with a red bar down the middle, invited buyers to the press he established in the Almonry at Westminster, a little enclosure containing a chapel and almshouses near the west front of the church, where the alms of the abbey were distributed to the poor.
Quotes with ALMONRY (1)
Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His r…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).