单词 | diaconate |
释义 | diaconaten. 1. The office or rank of deacon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [noun] > office of deaconhood1382 deaconheadc1475 deaconry1483 deaconship1565 diacony1637 diaconate1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Deaconry Diaconate, the Order or Ministry of a Deacon, or Deaconess.[Not in Johnson, Todd, Richardson, Webster 1828, Craig 1847.] 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Eclectic Rev.). 1849 (title) The Diaconate and the Poor. 1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. xiii. 467 If..we explain these intimations by what we know of the Diaconate in the succeeding century. 1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss 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. ΚΠ 1880 Sunday School Times 3 Apr. 212 During his diaconate the Rev. Thos. Gaulandet was assistant to Dr. Pierce. 1891 E. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [noun] > collectively deaconrya1680 deaconate1884 diaconate1891 1891 Stoughton in Wesl. Meth. Mag. May 347 A deputation from our diaconate called upon him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † diaconateadj. Obsolete. Having, or managed by, deacons.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [adjective] diaconal1611 diaconatea1680 deaconal1890 a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1697) IV. iv. 189 This one great Diaconate Church (as we may, in a Parallel Allusion, to that other Name of Presbyterial call it). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1728adj.a1680 |
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