[Ital.:—L. abbāt-em, ABBOT.] An Italian abbot; the same as the French abbé.
1822. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., LIII. 334. The abbate obtained a catalogue of a library extant in the Seraglio.
1860. Hawthorne, Marble Farm (1879), II. xxiv. 241. An abbate … was sitting there.
