decanal
Americanadjective
adjective
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of or relating to a dean or deanery
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(of part of a choir) on the same side of a cathedral, etc, as the dean; on the S side of the choir
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Origin of decanal
Example Sentences
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The latest version of the report, he said, also addresses the rate of change at a much more gradual level, moving from millennial to decanal time scales.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
It is doubtful how it took its origin, whether as a satire against the decanal order in general, or against some obnoxious dean in particular.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
The Chapter was promptly summoned, and the canon-sacrist interrogated as to how and why a votive red lamp had been suspended before an altar without decanal authority.
From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair
With an involuntary movement of his hands to his ears, he nodded and fled in haste to a place less exposed, where he could in a seemly and decanal manner relieve his feelings.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
The Dean winked his gray decanal eye at the champagne: the Senior Tutor coughed remotely like a grasshopper: Lonsdale prodded Michael with his elbow and murmured that "the Wagger had laid Mossy a stymie."
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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