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‖ plebania|pliːˈbeɪnɪə, plɪ-| [med.L., f. plēbānus pleban.] (See quots.) Hence † pleˈbanian in same sense.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 180 Questionlesse these Plebanians were like our side-wasted Parishes in Lanchishire, whose extensure is so large, that..one of those Parish Churches hath fourteene Chappels of ease..within..her limits. 1706Phillips, Plebania or Plebanalis Ecclesia, (in old Latin Records) a Mother-Church, which has one or more subordinate Chappels. 1902W. S. Crockett Scott Country xii. 247 It was the plebania or mother-church of the district. |