The abbatial residence, still existent, has a curious exterior pulpit built into the wall, examples of which are not too frequent in France.
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Abbatial
//əˈbeɪ̯.ʃəl//
Synonyms for "abbatial" (11 found)
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Related words (5)
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Translations
33 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- دَيْرَانِيّ adj (belonging to an abbey)
- دَيْرِيّ adj (belonging to an abbey)
Armenian
1 entries- աբբայական adj (belonging to an abbey)
Catalan
1 entries- abacial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Cornish
1 entries- abasel adj (belonging to an abbey)
Dutch
1 entries- abbatiaal adj (belonging to an abbey)
Esperanto
2 entries- abata adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abateja adj (belonging to an abbey)
Finnish
1 entries- luostarin adj (belonging to an abbey)
French
1 entries- abbatial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Galician
1 entries- abacial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Ido
2 entries- abadala adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abadeyala adj (belonging to an abbey)
Italian
2 entries- abbaziale adj (belonging to an abbey)
- badiale adj (belonging to an abbey)
Latin
1 entries- abbātiālis adj (belonging to an abbey)
Manx
2 entries- abbagh adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abbanagh adj (belonging to an abbey)
Norwegian
3 entries- abbed adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abbedi adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abbedisse adj (belonging to an abbey)
Occitan
2 entries- abacial adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abadial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Polish
1 entries- opacki adj (belonging to an abbey)
Portuguese
1 entries- abacial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Romanian
1 entries- abațial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Russian
1 entries- абба́тский adj (belonging to an abbey)
Spanish
1 entries- abacial adj (belonging to an abbey)
Ukrainian
1 entries- абатський adj (belonging to an abbey)
Vietnamese
2 entries- trưởng tu viện adj (belonging to an abbey)
- viện chủ tu viện adj (belonging to an abbey)
Welsh
2 entries- abadaidd adj (belonging to an abbey)
- abadol adj (belonging to an abbey)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
a possible abbatial vacancy
Source: wiktionary
Thus the abbatial succession came to be confined to members of the clan of the founder; and although originally the abbots were elected from the "founder's kin," and were distinct from those of the clan who possessed the abbatial lands, yet in process of time ecclesiastical line was merged in the secular, and both were united in one lay official, like the successors of St. Patrick at Armagh, who were the objects of St. Bernard's denunciations
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