dean : Idioms & Phrases

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Cardinal dean

  • the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. Shipley.
Webster 1913

dean acheson

  • noun United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)
    Acheson; Dean Acheson.
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Dean and chapter

  • the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or prebendaries.
Webster 1913

dean gooderham acheson

  • noun United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)
    Acheson; Dean Acheson.
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dean martin

  • noun United States singer (1917-1995)
    Dino Paul Crocetti; Martin.
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Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean

  • a monastic superior over ten monks.
Webster 1913

Dean of arches

  • the lay judge of the court of arches.
Webster 1913

Dean of cathedral church

  • the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates.
Webster 1913

Dean of faculty

  • the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh.
Webster 1913

Dean of guild

  • a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law.
Webster 1913

Dean of peculiars

  • a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. Eng.
Webster 1913

dean swift

  • noun an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
    Jonathan Swift; Swift.
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Dean's stall

  • . See Decanal stall, under Decanal.
Webster 1913

gloomy dean

  • noun English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)
    Inge; William Ralph Inge.
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james byron dean

  • noun United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
    James Byron Dean; Dean.
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james dean

  • noun United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
    James Byron Dean; Dean.
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Rural dean

  • one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.
Webster 1913

william dean howells

  • noun United States writer and editor (1837-1920)
    Howells.
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