Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Abbot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Misrule \Mis*rule"\, n.
1. The act, or the result, of misruling.
2. Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. --Pope.
{Abbot}, or {Lord}, {of Misrule}. See under {Abbot}, and
{Lord}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Abbot \Ab"bot\, n. [AS. abbod, abbad, L. abbas, abbatis, Gr.
'abba^s, fr. Syriac abb[=a] father. Cf. {Abba}, {Abb['e]}.]
1. The superior or head of an abbey.
2. One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
--Encyc. Brit.
{Abbot of the people}. a title formerly given to one of the
chief magistrates in Genoa.
{Abbot of Misrule} (or {Lord of Misrule}), in medi[ae]val
times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland
called the {Abbot of Unreason}. --Encyc. Brit.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
abbot
n : the superior of an abbey of monks [syn: {archimandrite}]
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