单词 | subdecanal |
释义 | subdecanaladj. Now rare. Of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [adjective] > dean > assistant to subdecanal1832 1832 Special & Gen. Rep. Ecclesiast. Courts of Eng. & Wales Index 207 Subdecanal Court. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. iv. 325 There are also Peculiars of various descriptions in most dioceses,..royal, archiepiscopal, episcopal, decanal, sub-decanal prebendal, rectorial, and vicarial. 1869 Edinb. Evening Courant 18 Sept. 7/1 For the first time the canons of the diocese were robed in their appropriate vestments,..the decanal and sub-decanal prebendaries being robed in dalmatics. 1966 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 65 321 Time has left us..enough [text] to sustain..further decanal (or at least subdecanal) investigations of literary problems in More's Richard III. 1977 Past & Present 74 32 It looks not improbable that Oxford's alumni did find the going harder..in sub-decanal capitular and parochial preferment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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