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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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