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hegumen

[ hi-gyoo-muhn ]

noun

Eastern Church.
  1. the head of a monastery.


hegumen

/ hɪˈɡjuːmɪˌnəʊs; hɪˈɡjuːmɛn /

noun

  1. the head of a monastery of the Eastern Church
“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 hegumen1

1655–65; < Medieval Latin ŧūԳܲ < Greek ŧúԴDz chief, literally, leading, present participle of ŧîٳ󲹾 to lead
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hegumen1

C16: from Medieval Latin ŧūԳܲ, from Late Greek ŧdzܳԴDz leader, from Greek ŧ𾱲ٳ󲹾 to lead
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Hegumen Kirion Machaidze took to to accuse the visitors of "idol worship" and of treating Father Gabriel like a "genie".

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The celebrated monastery of Rila possesses a vast estate in the Rilska Planina; its abbot or hegumen owns no spiritual superior but the exarch.

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The Hegumen referred next to your going about publicly unveiled.

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The election of the evil genius to the first place in the insidious movement was well done for the Academy; there would be no failure with him in control; but the poor Hegumen!

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In other words, he was seeing things as they were; that bad and good, for instance, were coexistent, one as much a part of the plan of creation as the other; that religion could only regulate and reform; that the end of days would find good men striving with bad men—in brief, that Demedes was performing the role to which his nature and aptitude assigned him, just as the venerable Hegumen, his father, was feebly essaying a counterpart.

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