archimandrite
Americannoun
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the head of a monastery; an abbot.
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a superior abbot, having charge of several monasteries.
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a title given to distinguished celibate priests.
noun
Etymology
Origin of archimandrite
1585–95; < Late Latin archimandrīta < Late Greek archimandrī́tēs abbot, equivalent to Greek archi- archi- + Late Greek mándr ( a ) monastery ( Greek: fold, enclosure) + -ītēs -ite 1
Example Sentences
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Then we took a carriage, and Mamma went to the Russian priest's, the archimandrite Alexander.
From Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Bashkirtseff, Marie
Father Hyacinthe, the Russian archimandrite at Peking, published a translation of this sort of geography of Thibet.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis
After dinner two rich ladies, landowners, arrived and sat for an hour and a half in silence with rigid countenances; the archimandrite, a silent, rather deaf man, came to see him about business.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
In Egypt, the first home of monasticism, the jurisdiction of the abbot, or archimandrite, was but loosely defined.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
At last he resolved to send the archimandrite Missael to the village, the one who had formerly been Mitia Smokovnikov's teacher of religion.
From The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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