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dean

In education, in universities and medical schools, the head of administration; in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, UK, the member of the teaching staff charged with the maintenance of discipline; in the USA, a leader in several administrative areas, such as the dean of students or dean of admissions; in Roman Catholicism, senior cardinal bishop, head of the college of cardinals; in the Anglican communion, head of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church (a rural dean presides over a division of an archdeaconry).



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Breathed to that extent,' the Dean (not unflattered by this indirect homage) condescendingly remarks, 'would be preferable.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior.
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THE DEAN OF FACULTY (Farmichael), } Counsel for the Panel ALEXANDER CROCKET, Esquire (Advocate),} (otherwise the Prisoner) MR.
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