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a person in charge of a group of monks

Many boys hope the Saholin abbot will select them as monks.

Of all the throng there was scarce one who was not labor-stained and weary, for Abbot Berghersh was a hard man to himself and to others.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The White Company
Of old time there lived there an abbot and his monks.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

abbot = a person in charge of a group of monks

O chivalry, O Abbot Suger!
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Then one of them led him unto the Abbot, which was in a chapel.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
Against the north wall was the empty stone coffin of an abbot, in which every tourist with a turn for grim humour was accustomed to stretch himself.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Then one of them led him unto the Abbot, which was in a chapel.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
Near the other end of Main Street he turned into the Abbot House bar.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
The spot was the burial-place of a king and a queen, of abbots and abbesses, saints and bishops, knights and squires.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
The Plymouth Express I Alec Simpson, RN, stepped from the platform at Newton Abbot into a first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
There's a midnight train-sleeping-car to Newton Abbot-gets there 6:08 A.M., and to Churston at 7:15.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the gallows; this was done.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
There's a ship leaving the harbor, its whistle resigned as an abbot in prayer, fracturing the dusk.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Remember that Sanchico is now full fifteen, and it is right he should go to school, if his uncle the abbot has a mind to have him trained for the Church.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
"I forgive thy wit," replied the Abbot, "on condition thou wilt show me the way to Cedric's mansion."
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
I was robbed off by Abbot's Ford, and I've been on foot ever since.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
All these old abbots and bishops used to write most beautifully, with such taste and so much care and diligence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
'One of us who had made pilgrimage to the Holy Places—he is now Abbot of the Lung-Cho Monastery—gave it me,' stammered the lama.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey Where the abbots buried him.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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