deaneryn.
/ˈdiːnəri/ 1. The office or position of a dean.
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society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > head > office of
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > dean > office of
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1292 Britton ii. xvii. §6 Dené [v.rr. denee, denrie], ou thresorie, ou chaunterie.]
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 118 Denerye, decanatus.
1483 Cath. Angl. 95 A Deynrye, decania.
1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §9 Any..Priorie, Arch-deaconry, Deanry..or any other benefice or promocion spirituall.
1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. G2 To beg the Byshoppricks, Deanries, and such great places.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 71 When he could no longer keep the Deanery of the Chappel Royal.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 25 Dec. Upon quitting his Deanery in the College [St. John's Oxford].
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 230 The Deanries all..are in the Donation of the Crown.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 87 The Deanery of Christ-church became vacant.
2. The group of parishes, forming a division of a diocese, over which a rural dean presides; formerly, also, the jurisdiction of a dean.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > rural dean > [noun] > district of rural dean
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rural deanery1642
decanate1835
a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's xii. 47 A Preiste..that gouerynd the Chirche of seynt Martyn..had receyuyd one hym..the deynrye of nygh chirches for maters ecclesiasticall to discusse.
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. i. i. 15 Vnto these deanerie churches also the cleargie in old time of the same deanrie were appointed to repaire at sundrie seasons, there to receiue wholesome ordinances, and to consult.
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 91 Appeale may be to the rurall Deanery.
1695 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 338 The bishops divided each diocese into deaneries or tithings, each of which was the district of ten parishes or churches.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Arches The Judge of the Court of the Arches, is called the Dean of the Arches..with which Officialty, is commonly joined a peculiar Jurisdiction over thirteen Parishes in London, termed a Deanery.
1835 W. Dansey Horæ Dec. Rur. I. 19 The division of dioceses at that time into decennaries or deanries.
1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 340/1 The report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1835, recommends that each parish shall be assigned to a deanery, and each deanery to an archdeaconry.
1890 Bp. Westcott in Durham Dioc. Gaz. IV. 34 Some improvements will, I trust, be made in the assignment of parishes to the several Deaneries.
3. The official residence of a dean.
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society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > other clerical residences > [noun] > dean's
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. vi. 30 And at the Deanry, where a Priest attends Strait marry her. View more context for this quotation
1727 Earl of Oxford in Swift's Lett. 12 Oct. I was in hopes..that you would not have gone to your deanery till the Spring.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 251 Late at night he was brought to Westminster, and was suffered to sleep at his deanery.
Compounds
†deanery church (the church of a rural dean), deanery house.
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1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. i. i. 15 But as the number of christians increased, so first monasteries, then finallie parish churches, were builded in euery iurisdiction: from whence I take our deanerie churches to haue their originale, now called mother churches, and their incumbents archpreests.
1724 J. Swift Apollo to Dean Swift in Misc. Poems 142 That Traytor Delany..seditiously came..To the Dean'ry House.
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