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▪ I. diaconate, n.|daɪˈækənət|
[ad. late L. diāconāt-us, f. diāconus deacon: see -ate1. Cf. F. diaconat.]
1. The office or rank of deacon.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Deaconry, Diaconate, the order or ministry of a deacon or deaconess. [Not in Johnson, Todd, Richardson, Webster 1828, Craig 1847.] a1846Worcester cites Eclectic Rev. 1849(title) The Diaconate and the Poor. 1852Conybeare & H. St. Paul (1862) I. xiii. 408 If..we explain these intimations by what we know of the Diaconate in the succeeding century. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon iii. 34 A vocation quite as special as that of the apostleship or the diaconate.
2. The time during which any one is a deacon.
1880Sunday School Times 3 Apr. 212 During his diaconate the Rev. Thos. Gaulandet was assistant to Dr. Pierce. 1891E. W. Gosse Gossip in Library v. 59 The English divines..were accustomed to stupendous efforts of endurance from their very diaconate.
3. A body of deacons.
1891Stoughton in Wesl. Meth. Mag. May 347 A deputation from our diaconate called upon him.
▪ II. † diˈaconate, a. Obs. nonce-wd.
[f. L. diācon-us deacon + -ate2.]
Having, or managed by, deacons.
a1679T. Goodwin Wks. IV. iv. 189 (R.), This one great diaconate church (as we may, in a parallel allusion, to that other name of presbyterial, call it). |