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abbe

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Ab´be`    (åb´bã`)
n.1.The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
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Noun1.Abbeabbe - a French abbot                      
abbot, archimandrite - the superior of an abbey of monks


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Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the necessity of a closer union, and would have availed themselves of the peace which followed their success against the Persian arms, to establish such a reformation.
What a misfortune it is you did not follow your first vocation; what a delicious abbe you would have made
Yes; we have an instance here; it was by always offering a million of francs to the governor for his liberty that an abbe became mad, who was in this chamber before you.
 
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