Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or rank of subdean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Office or rank of subdean.
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- noun The office or rank of
subdean .
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But in that year, on the 16th of June, the Senate having learned Smith's purpose of going to London, authorise him to get the accounts of the ordinary revenue of the College and the subdeanery for crops 1755, 1756, 1757, and 1758 cleared with the Treasury (that public office being then always in deep arrears with its work); to meet with Mr. Joshua Sharpe and settle his accounts with respect to the lands given to the College by Dr. Williams
Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895
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