| 单词 | to deacon off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto deacon off 1. transitive (usually to deacon off). To read aloud (a hymn) one or two lines at a time, the congregation singing the lines as soon as read, according to the early practice of the Congregational Churches of New England. Hence figurative. U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ 1845 T. W. Coit Puritanism 232 The insult..was given by deaconing out, as the phrase goes..the following verses from the 52d Psalm. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix. 125 Without you deacon off the toon you want your folks should sing. 1857 S. G. Goodrich Recoll. Lifetime I. 77 The chorister deaconed the first two lines. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 166 Well he knew to deacon-off a hymn. < as lemmas |
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