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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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My ruridecanal caste is a cut above you peregrines.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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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
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(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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