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Dean (the Latin Decaʹnus)

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The chief over ten prebends or canons.

The Dean (Il Piovaʹno). Arlotto, the Italian humorist. (1395–1483.)

Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick. (1667–1745.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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