abbacy
- noun
- /ˈæbəsi/
:
abadía
- During his abbacy, the monastery expanded its library and improved its education programs.
Examples
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The chronicle gives a vivid account of the tribulations the monks suffered during the last decade of the eleventh century, but it also revisits the abbacy of Theodoric I and underlines its importance in the abbey's history.
Academic text (2018) -
Scholarly opinion dates the work on the altar to about 1518-20, thus closely overlapping Cheldonius's brief abbacy (1518-21).
Academic text (2005) -
Every act is distinguished from the next by at least one blank line and, for those acts that were the first of a new abbacy, by a colored initial and an abbot figure.
Academic text (1999) -
Early on in his abbacy, around the time that he was working out his art program, he was confronted by an important controversy over the monastic use of art, which apparently shaped certain fundamental aspects of his program.
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The Vierzon Cartulary's organization by abbacy of disparate donation texts works to this effect.
Academic text (1999) -
The Vierzon manuscript is somewhat unusual in that the charters are grouped by abbacy.
Academic text (1999) -
We know from his own account of the abbacy of John in his Gesta abbatum that Matthew considered an effective memory remarkable and a worthy attribute of a pious abbot.
Academic text (1999) -
The text was clearly intended to glorify Theodoric's abbacy, but the author also emphasized the long-standing bond between the abbey and its proprietor, the bishop of Liège.
Academic text (2018) -
From the period of Cheldonius's abbacy, the famous case of Regensburg exemplifies the explosive intersection of anti-Jewish agitation, expulsion politics, pilgrimage, crusade, and Virgin cult.
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The note provides a securely dated period for the panel painting: though the period of the abbacy of Yeshaq of Daga is unknown, Zar'a Ya'eqob reigned from 1434 to 1468.
Academic text (1998)
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Etymology
The word abbacy comes from the same root as abbot and abbey, from the old word abba meaning 'father', because an abbot was like the 'father' of a monastery. So abbacy is the 'office' or rule of that father, the job or power of an abbot.