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archimandrite|ɑːkɪˈmændraɪt|
[ad. med.L. archimandrīta, ad. late Gr. ἀρχιµανδρίτης, f. ἀρχι- (see archi-) + µάνδρα an enclosed space, a monastery.]
In Gr. Ch. The superior of a monastery or convent, corresponding to the abbot in the Western Church. Occasionally also used of a superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to the Western superior abbot or provincial father.
1591Horsey Trav. (1857) 174 The principall priors, abbetts, archiemanders. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. (1782–8) IV. 564 Eutyches was the abbot, or archimandrite, or superior of three hundred monks. 1879Mem. Cath. & Cr. Tait 487 The Archbishop of Syra and Tenos was there, and his two Archimandrites. |