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Excerpt from A Church Dictionary
Abbe. The designation assumed in France, before the Revolution, by certain persons, who ostensibly devoted them selves to theological studies, in the hope that the king would confer upon them a real abbey i. E. A certain portion of the revenues of a real abbey. Hence it became the common title of unemployed secular priests.
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