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Definition of Abbotcy
1. abbacy [n -CIES] - See also: abbacy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbotcy
Literary usage of Abbotcy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing an Account by John Lingard (1845)
"... from a stall in the monastery of Cerne to the abbotcy of St. Alban's, and from
St. Alban's to the archi- episcopal see of Canterbury. ..."
2. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1838)
"... made him his prime secretary, and subsequently raised him to the abbotcy of
Croyland, one of the richest monastic establishments in the kingdom. ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... wherein it is said, " that the kirk belongs to the abbotcy of Newbattle," and
that the benefice " consists of a parsonage and vicarage. ..."
4. The Anglo-Saxon Church: Its History, Revenues, and General Character by Henry Soames (1838)
"He considers him to have written it soon after his advancement to the abbotcy of
Peterborough. Ancient Hist. Engl. and Fr. exemplified. Lond. 1830. p. 66. ..."
5. Ancient History: English and French, Exemplified in a Regular Dissection of by Henry Scale English (1830)
"... though in ‘good health, resigned the abbotcy in favour of the monk Leofric. ..."
6. Pleas of the crown for the county of Gloucester before the Abbot of Reading by Frederic William Maitland (1884)
"... succeed Randolf in the abbotcy. The lively chronicle that he has left us shows
him to have been heart and soul a lawyer. He had presided over the law ..."
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