Read full poem →Then out of the cloud of settling dust
The burly form of an abbot appeared,
Reading his office he rode to the town.
Dictionary Entry
The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
In a Sentence
“The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. abbotsuger abbotabbot newtonabbot lord
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Poetry examples for “abbot”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →16. St. Benedict was the first founder of a spiritual order in the
Roman church. Maurus, abbot of Fulda from 822 to 842, did
much to re-establish the discipline of the Benedictines on a true
Read full poem →yesterday a student, and to-day a lover; and I must be up later
than the nightingale, for as the abbot sings so must the
sacristan respond. God grant he may soon be married, for then
Read full poem →Said Luther; but, seized with qualms,
The abbot replied, "We're poor!"
Read full poem →comb Ash,’ Sherborne in ‘ Sherton Abbas,’ Milton Abbey
in ‘ Middleton Abbey,’ Cerne Abbas in ‘ Abbot’s Cernel,’
Evershot in ‘ Evershead,’ Taunton in ‘ Toneborough,’
Read full poem →Summoned to Lindisfarne, she came,
There, with Saint Cuthbert’s Abbot old,
And Tynemouth’s Prioress, to hold
Read full poem →to Eartham; translations from Milton; portrait of
Cowper by Abbot 392
Read full poem →An interesting account of Piel Castle will be found in Hearne and
Byrne's 'Antiquities'. It was built by the Abbot of Furness in the first
year of the reign of Edward III.--Ed.