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Definition of Archdeaconry
1. Noun. The territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon.
Definition of Archdeaconry
1. n. The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.
Definition of Archdeaconry
1. Noun. The office of an archdeacon, or the term of that office ¹
2. Noun. The residence, or territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archdeaconry
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archdeaconry
Literary usage of Archdeaconry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... there had also been a dispute as to a vicarage in Colchester archdeaconry,
that of Wytham, ... vicarage in the archdeaconry of Colchester (NEWCOURT, ii. ..."
2. A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties by Samuel Lewis (1831)
"The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 12. ..."
3. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"... about the archdeaconry of Norwich. YOUR letters, my lord, have always been as
welcome toInt. Ep'«*. me as good. I did earnestly look for them at my last ..."
4. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... men in (be archdeaconry of Richmond. ... inhabited within ike archdeaconry of
Richmond, in the county £/" York, ..."
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