rare. [f. ABBOT + -CY; of which ABBACY is the ordinary derivative.] = ABBACY, ABBOTSHIP.
1829. Law Mag., II. 498. After the return of Vacarius to France, which took place on his being promoted to the abbotcy of Bec, England could boast no professor of note in the same department till the time of Edward the First.
1844. Lingard, Hist. Anglo-Saxon Ch. (1858), II. xiii. 269. The abbotcy of St. Alban’s.
