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Deanery   Listen
noun
Deanery  n.  (pl. deaneries)  
1.
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
2.
The residence of a dean.
3.
The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. "Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes."





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"Deanery" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered briskly, "and of others too, and if, as seems likely, the Highlanders have left a vacant deanery or two behind them, I hope your loyal services and pastoral life will be suitably ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... his officials. Had the plague broken out with any severity in East Anglia? I think it almost demonstrable that it had not. A day or two before the Bishop left London he instituted his friend Stephen de Cressingham to the Deanery of Cranwich—in the west of Norfolk—which had fallen vacant, but there is nothing to show that the vacancy was due to anything out of the common. During the year ending 25th of March, 1349, there were 80 institutions in the diocese ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp


Words linked to "Deanery" :   position, berth, post, office, situation, place, deanship


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