noun. The superior of a monastery.

noun. Used as a title for such a person.

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

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

noun. 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

noun. The chief magistrate of the Genoese in Galata.

noun. The superior or head of an abbey.

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

noun. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa.

noun. in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason.

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

noun. the superior of an abbey of monks