Excerpt from A Theological Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World From the Birth of Christ to the Present
Abbess, the superior of an ah bey or convent of nuns. The abbess has the same rights and authority over her nuns that the abbots te gular have over their monks. The sex, indeed, does not allow her to perform the spiritual functions ah nexed to the priesthood, where with the abbot is usually invested but there are instances of some ah besses who have a right, or rather a privilege, to commission a priest to act for them. They have even a kind of episcopal jurisdiction, as well as some abbots who are exempted from tbc visitation of their diocesan.
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