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▪ I. ˈdecanate1 Astrol.
[f. decan + -ate.]
= face n. 11 c: see quot. 1696.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. viii. 58 He [Saturn] hath also these [degrees] for his Face or Decanate. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 23 It is in the last degree of the Decanate of Aries. 1696Phillips, Decanate, by some called Decurie, and in Astrology the Face, is one third part, or ten Degrees of each Sign, attributed to some particular Planet, which being therein, shall be said to have one Dignity, and consequently cannot be Peregrine. a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) iv. 126 Certain stones are in ‘sympathy’ with certain decanates.
▪ II. ˈdecanate2
[ad. med.L. decānātus, f. decānus dean.]
= deanery 2.
1835W. Dansey Horæ Dec. Rur. I. xxxiv. (Contents), Deans rural, general supervisors and censors of the inhabitants of their decanates. |