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-ory
unknown · 78% connection
An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amend…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Aeolian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Agonistical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Anglican
adjective · 78% connection
English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of En…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Archpriest
noun · 78% connection
A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Bulbar
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Chapter
noun · 78% connection
An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a dio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Classical
noun · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their bes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Curule
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Cystic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Dean
noun · 78% connection
The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Deaneries
pl. · 78% connection
of Deanery
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Deanery
noun · 78% connection
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Deanship
noun · 78% connection
The office of a dean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Decani
adjective · 78% connection
Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, si…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Equatorial
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Formic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.
Fulmiaic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulmini…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, dean, deanery.