Chief monk

Usage examples of abbot.

Toulouse, accompanied by his chaplain, the Abbot of Aguilers, Count Robert of Flanders, and various other noblemen in his company, took the chief places at the table.

The abbot greeted him politely and offered him an iron cot in a cell with a south exposure, after apologizing for the fact that the guest suite had been recently exposed to smallpox.

The other letter was a note from Abbot Jarad apologizing for being unable to meet with him as promised.

He finished the repairs to the south arcading and south aisle begun by Abbot Hugh, built three altars, and vaulted the aisle.

While Abbot Henry silently fetched a brace of candlesticks from the nearest aumbry and invested them with fresh beeswax candles, Arnault and Ninian moved to the rear of the chapel, where Ninian proceeded to lay out several small items from a deerskin pouch at his girdle.

I said nothing about it at the moment, but I begged the abbot to take me to his private chamber.

The most obstinate of them told me that the abbot had behaved more like a despot than a father, and had thus absolved them from their obedience.

They were mine to take, to kill then and there or to bring back to Palmaris for public trial, one over which both King Danube and Father Abbot Markwart might have presided, that their alliance, the glory of that joining, be revealed to the beleaguered populace of Palmaris.

Erembalds, who were afraid to bury it in Bruges lest the sight of the tomb of Charles the Good should one day rouse the townsmen to avenge his death, sent a message to Ghent, begging the Abbot of St.

The Abbot came to Bruges, and before dawn the body of the murdered Count was being stealthily carried along the aisles of St.

The abbot, whom I recognized by his cross, came towards me and asked if I wished to see the church and monastery.

Two monks with thuribles were censing the beds from either side, and six more were ranged along the side toward Albertus, chanting the responses to an antiphon being sung by the abbot.

The abbot crossed himself fervently and prayed: for the soul of the boy in the cesspit and for the penitent beside him.

Peter the Venerable, abbot of Clum, who flourished about this time, declared that paper from linen rags was in use in his day.

And if I were to meet the abbot on the way, how could I help returning with him?