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abbacy

[ ab-uh-see ]

noun

plural abbacies.
  1. the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
  2. the term of office of an abbot.


abbacy

/ ˈæəɪ /

noun

  1. the office, term of office, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of abbacy1

1400–50; late Middle English abbacie, abbat ( h ) ie < Late Latin پ ( abbey ), equivalent to - ( abbot ) + -ia -ia
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of abbacy1

C15: from Church Latin پ, from - abbot
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Example Sentences

The vilest traffickers in souls are all His chapmen, and for gold a prebend’s stall He’ll sell them, or an abbacy or mitre.

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This church is of unknown origin, but is known to have existed in the time of St. Gregory the Great, and to have been one of the fourteen privileged abbacies of Rome.

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The Four Masters tell us it was the monks of Drogheda who had expelled him from the abbacy for his own crime.

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Dioceses were reduced in number; cathedral chapters, abbacies, and prebenderies were suppressed; the fees to the nuncio and to the seminaries were discontinued.

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Let the King send, if he will, and seize the ward; he has the strength and power of doing his will, indeed of taking away the whole of the abbacy.

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