Obs. Forms: 3 abboddie; 6 abbatie, ab(b)athie. [ad. late L. abbatia, abbathia, abbadia (cf. Pr. abadia), n. of state, f. abbāt-em ABBOT. Afterwards changed to ABBACY, after words in -cy, ad. L. -cia, -tia.] = ABBACY.
c. 1270. An Old English Miscellany, 145. On willames daye þe yonger kynges wes þat Abboddie by-numen.
1561. T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., IV. 28 b. Abbaties and priories are geuen to very boyes, by priuilege, that is to say, by common and vsuall custome.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. 147. No Bishoprick, Abathie, Dignitie, or Rectorie, of value in England was likely to fall, but a successour in reversion was by the Popes provisions fore-appointed for the same.
