单词 | field-abbot |
释义 | > as lemmasfield-abbot field-abbot n. historical (now rare) a lay person who is given charge of an abbey in return for military service. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbot > [noun] > field field-abbot1833 1833 E. Henderson Buck's Theol. Dict. (new ed.) 2/2 The abbots..became a kind of military clergy, whose superiors bore, in the camp, the name of field-abbots. 1913 Everyman Encycl. I. 8/1 In the tenth century there were field-abbots (in Latin ‘Abbates Milites’), and abbot-counts. < as lemmas |
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