a. Obs. [f. L. abbāt-em ABBOT + -ICAL; apparently by form-assoc. with sabbatical.] = ABBATIAL.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist. Let others dispute, whether Ceolwolphus thus dispensed with them by his new Abbatical, or old Regal Power.

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1774.  T. West, Antiq. of Furness (1805), 75. Notwithstanding his abbatical dignity.

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