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‖ abbé|ˈæbeɪ|
[mod.Fr. abbé:—OFr. abe, abet:—L. abbāt-em; see abbot.]
The French title answering to Eng. abbot, but extended to ‘every one who wears an ecclesiastical dress,’ Littré; and specially applied to one having no assigned ecclesiastical duty, but acting as a professor, private tutor, or master of a household; in which sense the word is simply transferred into Eng. instead of being translated. Thus, ‘Anselm, abbot of Bec,’ ‘the Abbé Montmorency.’ Cf. Ital. abbate.
1530Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 11 f. lvir, For to the abbe..they say a lábbe. 1701T. Marwood Diary in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1909) VII. 100, I walkt out to y⊇ Abbé's a League & ½ off. Ibid. 108 And [we had] Abbé Villebreuille with us. 1712Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Dec. (1948) II. 581, I must see the Abbè Gautier. 1719Gay Let. 8 Sept. in Lett. Henrietta, C'tess of Suffolk (1824) I. 34 A French marquis drove an abbé from the table by railing against the vast riches of the church. 1780Cowper Prog. Error 385 Ere long some bowing, smirking, smart Abbé Remarks two loiterers that have lost their way. 1885Ld. R. Gower Old Diaries 10 Apr. (1902) 20 Monsieur Floquet..is a grey-haired, abbé-like man. 1955Times 8 July 11/4 A strange, weird, little man, looking something between an actor and an abbé. |