Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or belonging to a rural dean or a rural deanery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of or pertaining to a rural dean.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a rural dean.

Etymologies

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Latin rus, ruris the country + decanus the chief of ten. See dean.

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Examples

  • My ruridecanal caste is a cut above you peregrines.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Hester saw them drive off, and a few minutes later Mr. Gresley started on his bicycle for a ruridecanal chapter meeting in the opposite direction.

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • (which it never was), he had arranged to visit Hester when he knew Mr. Gresley would be engaging the reluctant attention of a ruridecanal meeting.

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

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