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decanal, a.|dɪˈkeɪnəl|
[f. L. decān-us dean + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a dean or deanery.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4386/3 Libraries of 3 degrees, viz. General, Decanal or Lending, and Parochial. 1862Sat. Rev. XIV. 705/2 The specially Decanal virtues. 1868Milman St. Paul's xi. 271 The decanal and prebendal estates.
2. Applied to the south side of the choir of a cathedral or other church, being that on which the dean usually sits.
1792Chron. in Ann. Reg. 67/1 The Pall-bearers and executors in the seats on the Decanal side, the other noblemen and gentlemen on the Cantorial side. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 4 On the Decanal or Southern side.
Hence deˈcanally, also deˈcanically, advs. (nonce-wds.), as a dean.
1882Plumptre in Spectator 8 Apr. 465/1 The twin-brother Deans, born decanally on the same day. 1892A. K. H. Boyd 25 Years of St. Andrew's I. 286 A great Welsh preacher, though as Stanley said, a babe decanically, a very young dean. |