Definitions for abbacies

abbacies ab·ba·cy

Spelling: [ab-uh-see]
IPA: /ˈæb ə si/

Abbacies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in abbacies (aabbceis).

Definitions for abbacies

noun

  1. the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
  2. the term of office of an abbot.

Origin of abbacies

1400-50; late Middle English abbacie, abbat(h)ie Late Latin abbātia (cf. abbey), equivalent to abbāt- (see abbot) + -ia

Examples for abbacies

Commendatar, Commendator, who enjoys the rents of an abbacy or other Benefice.

"Thou givest the abbacy to him above us all," said Brenainn.

Robert Ramsey succeeded to the abbacy in 1346, but of him nothing particular is recorded.

He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino.

Falling into disgrace at court, he was banished to the abbacy of Bonport.

King Edgar in 968 restored it, and appointed Sydemann to the abbacy, as it then became.

Turgeis himself is reported to have usurped the abbacy of Armagh.

He had a grant of the abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, when only seven years of age.

When Malachy secured possession of the see he remained long enough in Armagh to establish himself in the abbacy.

He obtained the abbacy of Crossraguell in Ayrshire, in the year 1549.

Word Value for abbacies
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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