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deaconry|ˈdiːkənrɪ|
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1. The office of a deacon; deaconship, diaconate.
1483Cath. Angl. 95 A Dekenry, diaconatus. 1560–1Bk. Discipline v., Privilege of Univ., Tutorie, Curatorie, Deaconrie, or ony siclike. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 133 S. Paul calleth his Apostleship but a Deaconry. 1824G. Chalmers Caledonia III. v. §7. 474 An act annulling that incorporation for having a deaconry.
b. A body of deacons collectively,
a1679T. Goodwin Wks. IV. iv. 188 (R.) The deacons of all those churches should make up a common deaconry.
2. R.C.Ch. The chapel and charitable institution of a ‘region’ of Rome, in charge of a cardinal or regionary deacon.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 67 The Chapels that were ordinarily united to these Religious houses, being called Deaconries. Ibid. i. iii. 68 Deaconries, where the Cardinals had their Residence, and..were call'd Cardinal Deacons, because of their residence in the Deaconry. 1751Chambers Cycl., Deaconry is also a name still reserved to the chapels and oratories in Rome, under the direction of the several deacons, in their respective regions..To the deaconries were annexed a sort of hospitals..governed by the regionary deacons, called cardinal deacons. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iii vii. 117 The churches and monasteries, the hospitals, deaconries or ecclesiastical boards for the poor. |