Ab'bé, n.
n. [Fr. abbé, from abba.] An abbot; but more generally one of a class of persons, especially in France and Italy, who had studied divinity to some extent, and who hoped for preferment to abbeys. Brande.
n. [Fr. abbé, from abba.] An abbot; but more generally one of a class of persons, especially in France and Italy, who had studied divinity to some extent, and who hoped for preferment to abbeys. Brande.