Dean: alternatives and connections

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contribu…

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suf…

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with indepe…

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative…

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…

An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bi…

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

Chair of a presiding officer.

The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They…

any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where…

A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in o…