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  • D.C.L.
    D.C.L.
    abbreviation
    Doctor of Civil Law.
  • DCL
    DCL
    abbreviation
    Doctor of Civil Law

D.C.L.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor of Civil Law.


DCL British  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor of Civil Law

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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D.C.L. or anything he fancies�at the cost of very little trouble and, perhaps, �10.

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Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business.

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General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was made a G.C.B., and the university of Oxford conferred on him the degree of D.C.L.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The Oxford authorities seem not to be disposed to view so leniently the action of Mr. Philip Aldred, D.C.L.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely

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