Definition of Rural dean. Meaning of Rural dean. Synonyms of Rural dean

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Definition of Rural dean

Rural dean
Rural Ru"ral, a. [F., fr. L. ruralis, fr. rus, ruris, the country. Cf. Room space, Rustic.] 1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. --Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy. Rural dean. (Eccl.) See under Dean. Rural deanery (Eccl.), the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean. Syn: Rustic. Usage: Rural, Rustic. Rural refers to the country itself; as, rural scenes, prospects, delights, etc. Rustic refers to the character, condition, taste, etc., of the original inhabitants of the country, who were generally uncultivated and rude; as, rustic manners; a rustic dress; a rustic bridge; rustic architecture, etc. We turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. --Thomson. Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; To manly confidence thy throughts apply. --Dryden.

Meaning of Rural dean from wikipedia

- Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal"...
- who is called a rural dean, but in more urban areas this has often been replaced by the title area dean or regional dean. Such a dean chairs the meeting...
- Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the prin****l of Gloucester Theological College...
- curacy in Orpington he was Priest in charge at Odell then Pavenham. He was Rural Dean of Sharnbrook from 1981 to 1986; and Rector of Angmering from 1986 to...
- common staff position at universities and colleges with on-campus housing Rural dean, an ecclesiastical title in Anglicanism Reverendo Don, the Italian written...
- is the Bishop of Brixworth in the Diocese of Peterborough. He had been rural dean of Wimborne in the Diocese of Salisbury and served as Acting Bishop of...
- previously Dean of Gloucester from June 2011. After a curacy at Sherborne Abbey he was priest in charge at St Aldhelm's Church, Branksome then Rural Dean of Poole...
- Cambridgeshire in the Ely diocese, from 1910. From 1925 Covey-Crump was the rural dean of Wisbech. In 1932, the po****tion of his parish was 930, and the net...
- archdeaconry. The more formal term, rural deanery, is less often used, though the superintendent of a deanery is the Rural Dean. Rural deaneries are very ancient...
- William Baddeley, was a Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Brisbane and Rural Dean of Westminster. An early stage appearance came in 1923 when...