| 单词 |
abbacy |
| 释义 |
abbacy|ˈæbəsɪ|
Also 5–6 abbasy, 6–7 abbacie.
[A modification of the earlier abbatie, assimilated to forms like prelacy, med.L. -acia, -atia. It appears to have been originally a Scotch form.]
1. The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
c1425Wyntown Cron. vii. v. 123 Of byschaprykis, or abbasyis, Or ony kyrkis benefyis. 1552Lyndesay Tragedie 53 At Arbroith I began,—Ane Abasie of gret ryches and rent. 1580Baret Alvearie, An Abbasie or the office of an Abbot, Antistitium. 1634–46J. Row (the father) Kirk of Scot. (1842) 55 That almes be given out of abbacies, as of before. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 322 Who knoweth not, that a Canonship, Abbacy, Bishoprick, are but relations? 1691Blount Law Dict., Abbacy (abbatia) is the same to an Abbot, as Bishoprick to a Bishop: We may call it his Paternity. 1776Adam Smith Wealth of Nat. II. v. i. 385 (1869) The abbot..was elected by the monks of the monastery, at least in the greater part of abbacies. 1872W. F. Skene Fordun's Chron. II. 413 The word ‘Abthania’ has no connection whatever with the word ‘Thanus.’ It is a Latin form of the Gaelic word Abdhaine, which is the equivalent of the Latin ‘Abbatia’ and signifies both the office of Abbot and the territory belonging to an Abbacy. 1873Burton Hist. of Scot. I. xii. 399 He is called the lord of the Abbacy.
2. The period during which any one is abbot.
1794W. Tindal Hist. Evesham 26 In the second year of Randulf's Abbacy Thomas, then dean, went with him to Rome. 1877R. J. King in Academy 3 Nov. 438 The east window of Bristol is the work of Edmund Knowle, whose long abbacy ranged from 1306 to 1332. |
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