ABBOT
NOUNS, PERSON
► ABATE an abbot or abbé → 1883 (Bk.)
► ABBAT the chief ruler of an abbey → 1130 obs.
► ABBATE 1. abbots → 1750
2. an Italian abbot → 1750
► ABBOD an abbot → 880 obs.
► ABBOT the head or superior of an abbey; after the dissolution of the monasteries, sometimes applied to the layman to whom the revenues of an abbacy were impropriated → 1123
► PRELATE an abbot, bishop, or clergyman of similar standing → 1225
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