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Collegiate Church
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 societies distinguished from the religious or regulars before the Reformation,
Dean
ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the
Peculiar
Peculiars of bishops in their own dioceses, exclusive of archdiaconal jurisdiction. (5) Peculiars of deans, deans and chapters, prebendaries, and the like, which are places wherein, by ancient compositions, the bishops have parted with their jurisdiction as
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