Usage examples for abbot:

• This matter must not be let drop- it passeth into the hands of holy Abbot Bilson. "Mistress Margery" – Emily Sarah Holt

• Minaya marks five hundred to the Abbot then gave o'er. "The Lay of the Cid" – R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon

• He tells me there are hundreds lying about where he lives- Ogwell, the place is, in Devonshire, just behind Newton Abbot and that they're called madrepores. "Major Vigoureux" – A. T. Quiller-Couch