单词 | archimandrite |
释义 | archimandriten. In Greek Orthodox Church. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > provincial > [noun] > Orthodox archimandritea1626 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbot > [noun] > Orthodox archimandritea1626 a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 174 The principall priors, abbetts, archiemanders. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Archimandrite, an Abbot, Prior, or chief of a Hermitage. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1782–8) IV. xlvii. 564 Eutyches was the abbot, or archimandrite, or superior of three hundred monks. 1870 C. Tait in W. Benham Catharine & Craufurd Tait (1879) ii. 487 The Archbishop of Syra and Tenos was there, and his two Archimandrites. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1626 |
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