abbatie

English

Noun

abbatie (plural abbaties)

1. (obsolete) The office, tenure, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbatie”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.