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Vicar forane

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vic⋅ar fo⋅rane

  [faw-reyn, foh-]
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–noun, plural vicars forane. Roman Catholic Church.
dean 1 (def. 2b).
Origin:
1885–90; forane < ML forāneus living away; cf. foreign
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dean

1  [deen]
–noun
1. Education.
a. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions.
b. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men.
c. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
2. Ecclesiastical.
a. the head of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
b. Also called vicar forane. a priest in the Roman Catholic Church appointed by a bishop to take care of the affairs of a division of a diocese.
3. the senior member, in length of service, of any group, organization, profession, etc.: the dean of lexicographers.
Origin:
1300–50; ME deen < AF deen, dean, OF deien < LL decānus chief of ten, equiv. to L dec(em) ten + -ānus -an

Related forms:
deanship, noun
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vicar fo·rane   (fô-rān', fō-)   
n.   pl. vicars forane Roman Catholic Church
A priest who by a bishop's appointment exercises limited jurisdiction over the clergy in a district of a diocese.

[vicar + Late Latin forāneus, living away, foreign; see foreign.]
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Word Origin & History

dean 
c.1330, from O.Fr. deien, from L.L. decanus "head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery," from earlier secular meaning "commander of 10 soldiers" (which was extended to civil administrators in the late empire), from Gk. dekanos, from deka "ten." Replaced O.E. teoðingealdor. College sense is from 1577 (in L. from 1271).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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