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† ˈpleban Sc. Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. plēbān-us, f. plēbs, plēbēs diocese, parish, parish church (Du Cange). So OF. plebain (Valenciennes, 1347), It. piovano rural dean.]
A rural dean.
1481Peebles Charters (1872) 188 Chaplanis and serwandis at the paroche alter, in Sant Andros kyrk, as pleban and curat of the parochanaris. Ibid. 189 The said Gylbert..constitut..the saidis plebane curat and chaplanis and thair successoris..to be kepparis to the archidenis place. [1706Phillips, Plebanus, a Rural Dean, so call'd because the Deaneries were commonly united to the Plebaniæ, or chief Mother-Churches within a particular District.] |