Decanus

In ecclesiastical and old Huropean law. An officer having supervision over ten; adean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and miliitary, ollicers. Decanus monasticus; a m Monastic dean, or dean of a monastery; an officer over ten monks. Decanus in majori ing over ten prebendaries. Decanws episcape; a bishop’s or rural dean, presiding over ten clerks or parishes. Deeanus fribergt; dean ‘ of a friborg. An oflicer among the Saxons who presided over a friborg, tithing, decennary, or association of ten inhabitants; otherwisecalleda “tithing man,” or “borshold:r.” Decanus militaris; a military officer, having command of ten soldiers.

Speiman.

In Roman law. <An oflicer having the command of a company or “mess” of ten soldiers. Also an officer at Constantinople having charge of the burial of the dead.