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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L., lit., of the dean.]

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean’s stall is placed; decanal; – correlative to

cantoris

;

as, the decanal, or

decani

, side

decani ‎(not comparable)

Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
- 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors
  You want a few more daffs on the decani side […]
- 1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan (page 105)
  All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.

decani m

decānī