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Webster 1913 Edition

(ärˊkĭmăn′drīt)

Noun.

[L.

archimandrita

, LGr.

ἀρχιμανδρίτης

; pref.

ἀρχι

(E.

arch-

) +

μάνδρα

an inclosed space, esp. for cattle, a fold, a monastery.]

(Gr. Church)

(a)

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

(b)

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

Noun.

[from mandrite, a Syriac word for monk.]

In church history, a chief of the mandrites or monks, answering to abbot in Europe.