Definitions for abbacy

abbacy ab·ba·cy

Spelling: [ab-uh-see]
IPA: /ˈæb ə si/

Abbacy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in abbacy (aabbcy).

Definitions for abbacy

noun

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

Origin of abbacy

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

Examples for abbacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for abbacy
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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