Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a dean or a deanery.
- Same as
decani .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
- adjective the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed.
- adjective the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
dean ordeanery . - noun chemistry the simple
aliphatic aldehyde , CH3(CH2)8CHO, related tocapric acid
Etymologies
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Examples
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Building ever stronger ties will require decanal leadership.
Discourse.net: Admit It, After Reading This You Want to be Our Dean 2009
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Prior to his current decanal service at SUU he was a Professor of Biology at the University of South Carolina Aiken Campus (USCA), Aiken, SC (1978-1999).
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I have seen decanal hiring, faculty hiring, tenure review letters, teaching evaluations, and tenure decisions affected by the political leanings of the candidate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring 2007
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Totally off topic: I too had to look up the definitin of “decanal” in the Free Online Dictionary.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring 2007
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Naturally, some decanal hiring decisions may still be too narrow-minded, or otherwise foolish.
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To the extent they raise funds, they tend to do it through grants, a process that focuses far more on evaluation of academic proposals and on scholarly reputation — and perhaps on personal contacts — than does decanal fundraising.
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I have seen one very liberal decanal candidate go down in flames when, evidently on the basis of one or two rumors, he was determined to be “insufficiently sensitive to race.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring 2007
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Vocabulary word for today: decanal: “of or pertaining to a dean or deanery.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring 2007
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The national congress was to be under the guidance of the prince primate; subordinate to the congress were to be the diocesan conventions with a diocesan senate; below, there were to be the decanal and district senates, following which were the communal assemblies and the parishes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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In some decanal or rural chapters the title given to the definitor is chamberlain or treasurer.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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