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n. The superior of a monastery.

n. Used as a title for such a person.

n. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.

n. The superior or head of an abbey.

n. One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

n. Literally, father: a title originally given to any monk, but afterward limited to the head or superior of a monastery.

n. In later usage, loosely applied to the holder of one of certain non-monastic offices.

n. A title retained in Hanover, Würtemberg, Brunswick, and Schleswig-Holstein by the heads of certain Protestant institutions to which the property of various abbeys was transferred at the Reformation. See abbess

n. The chief magistrate of the Genoese in Galata.

n. the superior of an abbey of monks

"Our Lady's Chapel has a bold kind of portal, and several ceilings of chapels, and tribunes in a beautiful taste: but of all delight, is what they call the abbot's cloister."

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