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Audience Court
having the same authority with the Court of Arches, but inferior to it in dignity and antiquity. The Dean of the Arches is the official auditor of the Audience. The Archbishop of York has also his Audience
Collegiate Church
Collegiate Church, a church built and endowed for a society, or body corporate, consisting of a dean or other president and secular priests, as canon or prebendaries in such church. There were many of these
Confirmation of Bishop
Confirmation of Bishop, the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive prior to the consecration of the bishop by the archbishop, as
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Conventual Church
Conventual Church, one which consists of regular clerks professing some order of religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men.
Custos spiritualium
jurisdiction of a diocese, during the vacancy of any see, which, by the canon law, belongs to the dean and chapter, but at present, in England, to the archbishop of the province by prescription, Encyc. Londin.
Dignitary
Dignitary [fr. dignus, Lat., worthy], a clergyman advanced to be a bishop, dean, archdeacon, prebendary, etc. But there are prebendaries without cure or jurisdiction, who are not dignitaries, 3 Inst. 155.
Doctors' Commons
of Doctors of Laws exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts.' The college consisted of a president (the Dean of Arches for the time being), and of those Doctors of Laws who, having regularly taken that degree
Exeter, or Exon, Domesday
or Exon, Domesday, the name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the
Installation
or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing of a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight into his order. Means any composite electrical unit
Decani
Used of the side of the choir on which the deans stall is placed decanal correlative to cantoris as the decanal or decani side
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