Decanus

Lat. [from Gr. dsnavog, from dsndii, ten.] In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military officers.

Spelman.

Decanus m/mastieus; a monastic dean, or dean of a monastery; an officer over ten monks.

Spelmxm.

Calvin Lex. Jurid. Decanus in m/jjori ecclesice; dean of a cathedral church, presiding over ten prebendaries. Spelman, See Dean, Decanus episcopi; a bishop's or rural dean; presiding over ten clerks or parishes. Spelman, Lyndewode Prov, hb.

1, tit. de constit. c. 1. verb.

Decanos rurales. See Mural Deans. Decanus frihorgi; dean of a friborg. An officer among the Saxons who presided over a friborg, tithing, decennary, or association often inhabitants; otherwise called a tithing; man, or borsholder, (Lat. decurio, capitalts friborgus, frihorgi caput, qq. v. ) Spelman.

LL.

Edw, Canf. cited ihid. See Friborg. Decanus militaris; a military officer, having command of ten soldiers. Spelman, Vegetius, lib.

2, c. 13.

Calvin Lex, Jurid.