Definitions
Etymologies
- From French décanal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Building ever stronger ties will require decanal leadership.”
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“Prior to his current decanal service at SUU he was a Professor of Biology at the University of South Carolina Aiken Campus (USCA), Aiken, SC (1978-1999).”
“I have seen one very liberal decanal candidate go down in flames when, evidently on the basis of one or two rumors, he was determined to be “insufficiently sensitive to race.””
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“I have seen decanal hiring, faculty hiring, tenure review letters, teaching evaluations, and tenure decisions affected by the political leanings of the candidate.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring
“Totally off topic: I too had to look up the definitin of “decanal” in the Free Online Dictionary.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Choice Words on Law School Faculty Hiring
“To the extent they raise funds, they tend to do it through grants, a process that focuses far more on evaluation of academic proposals and on scholarly reputation — and perhaps on personal contacts — than does decanal fundraising.”
“Vocabulary word for today: decanal: “of or pertaining to a dean or deanery.””
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“Naturally, some decanal hiring decisions may still be too narrow-minded, or otherwise foolish.”
“The national congress was to be under the guidance of the prince primate; subordinate to the congress were to be the diocesan conventions with a diocesan senate; below, there were to be the decanal and district senates, following which were the communal assemblies and the parishes.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“In some decanal or rural chapters the title given to the definitor is chamberlain or treasurer.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘decanal’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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