a. [a. Fr. abbatial (16th cent. in Litt.), ad. late L. abbātiāl-is f. abbātia. See ABBATIE and -AL.] Of or pertaining to an abbacy, abbot or abbess.
a. 1642. Urquhart, Rabelais, IV. xiv. (1855). He was a public person, a servant to the monking tribe, apparitor to the abbatial mitre.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 420. The King became entitled to the profits of the lands of bishopricks and abbatial manses.
1851. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 366. This is not the Cathedral but an Abbatial Church.
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. x. 445. He bestowed the abbatial benediction on Wulfstan.
