Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
abbatial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Abbatial.
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Examples
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He there spent all his hours, unoccupied by the duties of his abbatical office, in the transcription of books and the nobler avocations of an author.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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"Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh;" and the monks soon began to perceive with regret and trembling the worldly ways of the new abbot, which he could not hide even under his abbatical robes.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Some portions of his relics are shown in the abbatical church of Triers, and in that of St. Mary Major in
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Appointed Vicar Apostolic of New France, with the title of Bishop of Petrea, Laval was consecrated on 8 Dec., 1658, by the papal nuncio Piccolomini in the abbatical church of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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No one among the abbatical founders of Creteil had, to be quite frank, any measure of talent in proportion to his daring.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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Hundreds of brave men were put, without mercy, to the sword, and many, with less mercy, burnt alive or died by the torture in the dark dungeons of the abbatical palace.
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840
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S. Dionysii ", and a memoir on his own abbatical administration," Liber de rebus in administratione sua gestis ".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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