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deaconship|ˈdiːkənʃɪp|
[-ship.]
The office or position of a deacon.
1565Harding in Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 85 The Priesthood & Deaconship. 1610J. Robinson Just. Separ. Church Wks. II. 364 The office of deacon-ship which Christ hath left by his apostles for the collection and distribution of the Church's alms. 1615Wadsworth in Bedell Lett. 13 Priesthood is giuen by the deliuerie of the Patena..and of the Chalice..Deaconship by the deliuerie of the booke of the Gospels. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 400 That none shall be..ordained an Elder, till after he had well acquitted himself in the Deaconship. 1849–53Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. 51 In due time the Subdeacon was raised to the Deaconship. |