abbacy
Americannoun
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abbacies
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the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
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the term of office of an abbot.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of abbacy
1400–50; late Middle English abbacie, abbat ( h ) ie < Late Latin abbātia ( cf. abbey), equivalent to abbāt- ( see abbot) + -ia -ia
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Scrabble annoys me; I can’t trust a game in which a well-played za scores more points than, well, abbacy.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2020
He became prior, and his talents attracted the notice of the duke, who made him his counsellor, and gave him the abbacy of his new monastery, St. Stephen’s, at Caen.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
The wily Italian managed, by his plausible address, to obtain a position which replenished, to some degree, his own empty purse, having been collated by royal favour to the abbacy of Tungland, in Galloway.
From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The Four Masters tell us it was the monks of Drogheda who had expelled him from the abbacy for his own crime.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
The Council of Constance restricted the obligation to bishoprics and abbacies, and such other benefices as had a yearly income of more than 24 gulden.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
John asked for delay, and attempted to divide his antagonists by offering to the clergy the right of free election to bishoprics and abbacies.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The same process was carried out with regard to abbacies, and indeed with all important places of ecclesiastical preferment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
In Hungary, the crown appoints absolutely to all bishoprics, abbacies, and even to canonries.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
Bishoprics and abbacies were rewards of service to the king, the bishops were worldly-minded, plurality was frequent, and simony not unknown.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
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