The government of a religious house, and the revenues thereof, subject to an abbot, as a bishopric is to a bishop. Cowell. The rights and privileges of an abbot.

To blind by placing a burning basin or red-hot irons before the eye’s. A form of punishment in the Middle Ages. Also spelt abacinare. The modern Italian is spelt with two b’s, and means to blind. Abbacination. Blinding by placing burning basin or red-hot irons before the eyes. See Abbacinare.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather. Inst. 3, 6, 4; Dig. 38, 10, 1, 6; Bract. fol. 67a.