Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbacy (in the early Scottish church).
- noun Erroneously, a superior thane.
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Scotland, IV; Fordun, II, 413) holds that the correct meaning of abthain (or abthane) is not "abbot" or "over-thane", but "abbey" or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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