Definition of decanal in English:
decanal
adjective ˈdɛk(ə)n(ə)ldɪˈkeɪn(ə)lˈdekənl
1Relating to a dean or deanery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Oliver Wilson, a third-year New College Law finalist, has received a decanal summons to explain why he sent what university regulations classify as an ‘abusive email’.
- While these may or may not sound credible, the immense difficulty of sustaining a long-term relationship if your partner is unable to stay in college accommodation without decanal permission, is real and tangible.
- In academe women's presence is scarce at decanal levels and higher.
- He said that if the warning was ignored the College would consider using decanal action to ‘protect the lives’ of students.
- Like presidents, they return less often to the faculty after their decanal service ends, instead using their deanships as a step upward in an administrative career.
- 1.1 Relating to or denoting the south side of the choir of a church, the side on which the dean sits.
The opposite of cantorial
Origin
Early 18th century: from medieval Latin decanalis, from late Latin decanus (see dean1).