abbatial
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of abbatial
From the Late Latin word abbātiālis, dating back to 1635–45. See abbacy, -al 1
Example Sentences
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His body is possessed in a rich shrine, in the abbatial church of Our Lady at Ham, in Picardy, belonging to the regular canons of St. Genevieve.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
The wall, ogival, threw to cathedral height the arches of its vaulted ceiling, which were joined together, like the sides of an abbatial mitre, in a point.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Having possessed himself of the more important and revered of the abbatial insignia he was at length more than a match for his antagonist.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
During the storms of the revolution, the abbatial church happily suffered but little.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman
Beside this picture was one of the abbess Meroflede herself, draped in her long black and white veils; in one hand she held her abbatial crosier, in the other a naked sword.
From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue
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