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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

minster. A name applied in England to certain cathedrals (e.g. York) and other large churches (e.g. Beverley). It originally meant a monastic establishment or its church, whether strictly a monastery or a house of secular canons. In Anglo-Saxon England ‘old minsters’, staffed by groups of clergy living in community, were the centres of vast parishes, within which new churches, each served by a single priest, served smaller areas.

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Minster

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Minster, ‘the monastery or large church’, OE mynster: Minster Kent, near Ramsgate. Menstre 694. Minster Kent, near Sheerness. Menstre 1203. Minster Lovell Oxon. Minstre 1086 (DB), Ministre Lovel 1279. Manorial affix from the Luvel family, here in the 13th cent.

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minster

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

minster † monastery; church originating in a monastic establishment; large church. OE. mynster = OHG. munistri (G. münster), MDu. monster, ON. mustari — popL. *monisterium for ecclL. monastērium MONASTERY.

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T. F. HOAD. "minster." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-minster.html

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minster

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

minster.
1. A monastery or its church.

2. Abbey-or priory-church, or, more properly, a large collegiate or conventual church, distinguished from a parish-church or a cathedral.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

minster •bitter, committer, critter, embitter, emitter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, permitter, pitta, quitter, remitter, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, splitter, submitter, titter, transmitter, twitter, witter •drifter, grifter, lifter, shifter, sifter, snifter, uplifter •constrictor, contradictor, depicter, dicta, evictor, inflicter, predictor, victor •filter, kilter, philtre (US philter), quilter, tilter •Jacinta, midwinter, Minter, Pinta, Pinter, printer, splinter, sprinter, tinter, winter •sphincter •assister, ballista, bistre (US bister), blister, enlister, glister, lister, mister, resistor, Sandinista, sister, transistor, tryster, twister, vista •trickster •minster, spinster •hipster, quipster, tipster •cohabiter • arbiter • presbyter •exhibitor, inhibitor, prohibiter •Manchester • Chichester • Silchester •Rochester • Colchester •creditor, editor, subeditor •auditor • Perdita • taffeta • shopfitter •forfeiter • outfitter • counterfeiter •register • marketer •cricketer, picketer •Alistair • weightlifter • filleter •fillister • shoplifter •diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter, tetrameter •Axminster • Westminster •limiter, perimeter, scimitar, velocimeter •accelerometer, anemometer, barometer, gasometer, geometer, manometer, micrometer, milometer, olfactometer, optometer, pedometer, photometer, pyrometer, speedometer, swingometer, tachometer, thermometer •Kidderminster • janitor •banister, canister •primogenitor, progenitor, senator •administer, maladminister, minister, sinister •monitor • per capita • carpenter •spanakopita • Jupiter • trumpeter •character • barrister • ferreter •teleprinter •chorister, forester •interpreter, misinterpreter •capacitor • ancestor • Exeter •stepsister •elicitor, solicitor •babysitter • house-sitter • bullshitter •competitor • catheter • harvester •riveter • banqueter • non sequitur •loquitur •inquisitor, visitor •compositor, expositor

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