decanaladj.
/dɪˈkeɪnəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a dean or deanery.
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1707 London Gaz. No. 4386/3 Libraries of 3 degrees, viz. General, Decanal or Lending, and Parochial.
1862 Sat. Rev. 14 705/2 The specially Decanal virtues.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 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.
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1792 Chron. 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.
1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 4 On the Decanal or Southern side.
Derivatives
deˈcanally adv.
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1882 E. H. Plumptre in Spectator 8 Apr. 465/1 The twin-brother Deans, born decanally on the same day.
deˈcanically adv. (nonce-words), as a dean.
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1892 A. K. H. Boyd Twenty-five Years St. Andrews I. 286 A great Welsh preacher, though as Stanley said, a babe decanically, a very young dean.
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