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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



... child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be. But we have no such people in Mansfield. What would you have ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... neo-Gothic railway with Meads. This would not only add to the amenities of the landscape, but enable the present cathedral site to be utilized for a purpose more in consonance with the needs of the age. We do not presume to dictate, but may point out that if the deanery and the canons' houses were pulled down and re-erected on the golf-links, where they would look better than ever, space would be available for a majestic aerodrome, or, better still, an experimental water-stadium for submarines, in memory of KING ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 5, 1919 • Various

... of the Chapel Royal of Stirling. The Deanery, which was first conjoined with the Provostry of Kirkheugh, St. Andrews, was afterwards annexed to the Bishopric of Galloway. Henry Weemys, Bishop of Galloway, was accordingly Dean of the Chapel Royal, during his incumbency, from 1526 to 1541.—In MS. G, Clapperton is erroneonsly ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox

... was the consideration for which she was to sell herself to this slavery? A peerage in her own right? A pension of two thousand a year for life? A seventy-four for her brother in the navy? A deanery for her brother in the church? Not so. The price at which she was valued was her board, her lodging, the attendance of a manservant, and ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... censer and the tapers, and they were to be no longer the Canons, but "Clerks of the Third Form," i.e., his fellow-choristers. But the practice remained for the Boy-Bishop to be entertained on the Eve of St. John the Evangelist either at the Deanery or at the house of the Canon-in-residence. Should the Dean be the host, fifteen of the Boy-Bishop's companions were included in the invitation. The Dean, too, found a horse for the Boy-Bishop, and each ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell


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