Words Like ABBOT
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6 definitions of abbot
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Literally, father: a title originally given to any monk, but afterward limited to the head or superior of a monastery.
2
In later usage, loosely applied to the holder of one of certain non-monastic offices.
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A title retained in Hanover, Würtemberg, Brunswick, and Schleswig-Holstein by the heads of certain Protestant institutions to which the property of various abbeys was transferred at the Reformation. See abbess
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The chief magistrate of the Genoese in Galata.
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A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
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the superior of an abbey of monks