archimandrite

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Martyr and archimandrite, or superior, of St. Sabas in Jerusalem.

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  1. noun Eastern Orthodox Church A cleric ranking below a bishop.
  2. noun Eastern Orthodox Church The head of a monastery or a group of monasteries.
  3. noun Eastern Orthodox Church Used as an honorific title for an unmarried priest.

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  • Loran had no idea which tower belonged to the archimandrite, but she inquired at the city's main gate. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • Already the keeper of the tower, the archimandrite herself, was moving toward them Gliding would have been a better term, for the archimandrite a sliver of a woman with a pale and narrow face, did not seem to walk as much as she hovered above the stonework floor. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • The archimandrite was the center of the Union, but Hurkyl was one of the keystones of that group, as well as Feldon and, despite himself, Drafna And, Loran had come to recognize, herself as well The halls were full of lesser scribes and scholars as she wended her way to Feldon's private sanctuary. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • ;Fill with memories Has Hurkyl taught you any of her meditative techniques inquired Feldon She's taught the archimandrite, who's passed a bit on to me, ; said Loran. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • But despite the name, the archimandrite had succeeding in researching and refining this mana, had distilled it down to its base elements And she turned those base elements into a weapon against the desert warriors But now Hurkyl was dead, the archimandrite was missing, and the city of the towers had been betrayed and occupied by the Fallaji. —  JEFF GRUBB
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  1. Late Latin archimandrīta, from Late Greek arkhimandrītēs : Greek arkhi-, archi- + Late Greek mandra, monastery (from Greek, cattle pen).

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  1. from Middle Latin archimandrita, from LGr. ἀρχιμανδρίτης (Epiphanius), chief of a monastery, from Greek ἀρχι-, chief, + μάνδρα, a fold, inclosure, ecclesiastical a monastery.
 

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/ɑrkɪˈmændraɪt/
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