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Of or having to do with or belonging to a monastery.

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  • On the middle cornice, again parallel to the altar of St. Benedict, St. Bernard receives the abbatial insignia from Our Lady.
  • Not thinking himself safe within the city, away he went for St Denis -- got without the city walls in safety, and made off as fast as he could for the abbatial town.
  • Benedictine habit and received the abbatial blessing in 1409.
  • The general motive of abbatial building was common to them all.
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