Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ARCH-I-MAND'RITE
ARCH-I-MAND'RITE, n. [From mandrite, a Syriac word for monk.]
In Church history, a chief of the mandrites or monks, answering to abbot in Europe. – Encyc. Tooke's Russ.
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