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Definition of Decumans
1. decuman [n] - See also: decuman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decumans
Literary usage of Decumans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Hundred of Carhampton: In the County of Somerset, from the by James Savage (1830)
"The churches of St. decumans, Timberscombe, and Wiveliscombe, in the Deanery of
Dunster, give name to Prebends in the Cathedral church of Wells. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"The saint's well at St. decumans was an object of veneration in the sixteenth
century. His day is 27 Aug. [Holland. Acta SS. ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"Southward from this village is the hamlet of Orchard, BO called from the name of
its first proprietor. It lies within the parish of St. decumans, ..."
4. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells by William Henry Benbow Bird, William Paley Baildon, Wells Cathedral (1907)
"... it was found that he was bound in 14 marks of arrears of his fifth before his
death and 2 marks accruing after his death of his prebend of St. decumans, ..."
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