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Excerpt from Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts
Ab'bey, a religious house governed by a superior, under the title of an abbot or abbess. The abbeys of England, at their dissolution under Henry VIII, became lay-sees; when no less than 190 were dissolved, the yearly revenue of which has been estimated at At present, an abbey is, in general, the cathedral or episcopal church of the see or diocese in which it stands.
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