After Charles Abbott, Lord Chief Justice from 1818 to 1832. <span class="searchmatch">Abbot's</span> <span class="searchmatch">Priory</span> (obsolete, British slang, idiomatic) King's Bench Prison, a former prison in...
superior or father superiors) a friar or monk in charge of a monastery, <span class="searchmatch">priory</span> or convent; an <span class="searchmatch">abbot</span> or a prior mother superior friar or monk in charge...
ηγουμενοσυμβούλια) the board of management of an abbey, <span class="searchmatch">priory</span>, etc see: ηγούμενος m (igoúmenos, “father superior, <span class="searchmatch">abbot</span>”) and συμβούλιο n (symvoúlio, “council”) and...
§ Translations. Translations to be checked cloister convent friary monastery nunnery <span class="searchmatch">priory</span> Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors...
or congregation, and/or on which lower ranking houses (such as <span class="searchmatch">priories</span> under an <span class="searchmatch">abbot</span>) depend. religious monastery from which the other houses were founded...
used to institute an <span class="searchmatch">abbot</span>, analogous to the consecration of a bishop. 1726, John Ayliffe, “Of <span class="searchmatch">Abbots</span>, Priors, Abbies, <span class="searchmatch">Priories</span>, &c.”, in Parergon juris...
subprior Swaffham Prior <span class="searchmatch">priory</span> in an abbey, the person ranking just after the <span class="searchmatch">abbot</span>, appointed as his deputy head of a <span class="searchmatch">priory</span>, or some other minor or...