subdeaconn.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbˈdiːk(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˈˌsəbˈˌdikən/

Forms:

α. Old English (rare) Middle English– subdeacon, Old English–1500s 1700s subdiacon, Middle English subdeacone, Middle English subdeakyn, Middle English subdecane, Middle English subdeken, Middle English subdekene, Middle English subdekne, Middle English subdekon, Middle English subdiacone, Middle English subdiakenn, Middle English–1500s subdekyn, Middle English–1500s subdecon, 1500s subdeaken; Scottish pre-1700 subdecane, pre-1700 subdeiken, pre-1700 subdeken, pre-1700 subdekin, pre-1700 subdekyn, pre-1700 subdekyne, pre-1700 subdyaken, pre-1700 1700s– subdeacon; N.E.D. (1914) also records a form Middle English–1500s subdekin.

β. Middle English sodeke, Middle English sodeken, Middle English sodekene, Middle English sodekne, Middle English sodekon, Middle English sodekyn, Middle English soodekne, Middle English soudekene, Middle English sudeakne, Middle English suddeken, Middle English suddekene, Middle English sudekene, Middle English sodekun, Middle English sudekyn, Middle English sudyakne; N.E.D. (1914) also records a form Middle English sudekne.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin subdiaconus; French suzdekne, subdiacne.

Etymology: Originally (in Old English) < post-classical Latin subdiaconus (see below); subsequently either reinforced by or reborrowed < (i) Anglo-Norman suzdekne, sudiacne, sudiakene, sodekene, subdeken, subdiakene, sudeacone, Anglo-Norman and Old French subdiacne, Old French suzdiakene, soudyakene (c1190; also soudiacre , etc.; French sous-diacre ), and (ii) its model or etymon post-classical Latin subdiaconus (3rd cent.) < classical Latin sub- sub- prefix + post-classical Latin diaconus deacon n.¹, after Hellenistic Greek ὑποδιάκονος (compare hypodeacon n. at hypo- prefix 2). Compare southdeacon n., underdeacon n. at under- prefix¹ 3a(a).Compare also the following unassimilated borrowing of post-classical Latin subdiaconus into Old English, where the word is used with Latin case inflections:OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: De Ecclesiasticis Gradibus (Junius) (1959) 227 Crist wæs subdiaconus, þa þa he gebletsode wæter in Chana Galilęę.OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: De Ecclesiasticis Gradibus (Junius) (1959) 232 Subdiaconi beoð on getacnunge Cristes gespelian, syððan hi þone had underfoð; þæt getacnað þa fata, þe biscop heom on hand sylð.

1. Christian Church.

a. A clergyman of an order next below that of deacon, whose duties include assisting in the celebration of the Eucharist by preparing the sacred vessels and formerly (in the Western Catholic Church) reading the Epistle at High Mass.The subdiaconate ranks as the highest of the minor orders of clergy in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, and was the lowest of the major orders of the Western Catholic Church until its abolition in 1972. Although the office of subdeacon does not formally exist in the Anglican Church, laypeople act as subdeacons in the celebration of Holy Eucharist in some congregations: see sense 1c.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun]

subdeaconOE

southdeacon1340

subdeaconrya1500

subdeacon1520

tunicle1554

subdeaconate1810

α.

OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxxiii. 335 Ne sceal nan accolitus, þæt is husolþen, forsecgan nanne subdiacon [L. subdiaconum], ne nan exorcista, þæt is halsere, forsecgan nanne accolitum.

lOE Rule St. Benet (Faust.) lxii. 141 Hæbbe se abbod swa gecorenne mæssepreost, ægþær ge deacon ge subdiacon [a1225 Winteney subdiacon; L. subdiaconum].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 359 Oon Arator, a subdecon of Rome.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 1051 Ȝyf þou..art a clerk, & hast þe los Of subdekene, or dekene by name.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 59 He þat schuld be mad a bischop schuld first be a benet,..and þan a colet, and þan subdiacone, diacone, and prest.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 281 The Subdeacon mighte take the offring, and handle the Chalice, and the Patine.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. iv. f. 22^v As for Subdeacons, it is likely that at the beginnyng they were ioyned to the Deacons, that they should vse their seruice about the poore.

1615 J. Wadsworth Let. 1 Apr. in W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. in Matter Relig. (1624) 12 [In] England, whereas the Councels require the ordines minores of Subdeacon and the rest, to goe before Priesthood; your Ministers are made per saltum without euer being Subdeacons.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 106 The Priests, Deacons, and Subdeacons of the Easterne Church.

1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xv. 154 From the minor Orders they are promoted to the Order of Sub-deacon, which is the first of those that are called Holy.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xv. 510 The clergy..consisted of a bishop, forty-six presbyters, seven deacons, as many sub-deacons, [etc].

1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. xi. 51 In due time the Subdeacon was raised to the Deaconship.

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 326 According to all the Anglo-Saxon and Norman and English Pontificals, it was always the proper office of the Subdeacon to read the Epistle.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 854/2 The ordination of subdeacons, when the bishop lays the vestment on the ordinand's head with the words, [etc.].

1978 R. J. Halliburton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. iv. v. 318 The Eastern churches of the Byzantine rite [have] five orders of ordained ministers: the three major orders of bishop, presbyter, and deacon, and two further orders of sub-deacon and lector.

2004 Church Times 6 Feb. 22/2 He completed his studies before reaching the canonical age for ordination..so spent nearly 18 months as subdeacon at St Matthew's.

β. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 225 (MED) Þe beheste is solempne ase..be holy ordre þet me heþ onderuonge, ase sudyakne oþer dyakne oþer prest.c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 63 Sudeakne mey be ywedded nauȝt.c1425 Myrour to Lewde Men & Wymmen (Harl.) (1981) 166 (MED) The tenthe degree [of lechery] is bytwene a man in holy ordre, as preeste, deken, or sodeken, & a seculer womman.a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 471 Iames Vercellence, the popis sodekon.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 39 Þe clerkis of þi jurisdiccoun, þat are wiþ in þe ordre of sodeken, or a boue.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 371 A Sudekyn, subdiaconus.

†b. A vestment or set of vestments to be worn by a subdeacon; spec. = tunicle n. 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > tunicle

subdeacon1423

tuniclec1425

tunic1696

1423 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 75 (MED) De vj l. receptis pro uno vestimento de nigro panno de baudekyn, viz. j casula, deakyn, et subdeakyn, cum una capa ejusdem sectæ..pro uno vestimento..continente j casulam, deakyn, et subdeakyn.

1553 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 52 A preist & a subdeaken of blew bodkin.

1566 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) v. 114 One payer of hangings of the best blewe and vestements with Decon and Subdecon of the same.

c. A layperson or other clergyman who performs the role traditionally taken by a subdeacon (in sense 1a) in the celebration of the Eucharist; spec. = epistoler n. 1. Also: the role or part of subdeacon.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun]

subdeaconOE

southdeacon1340

subdeaconrya1500

subdeacon1520

tunicle1554

subdeaconate1810

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > epistoler > [noun]

pistelerc1475

epistoler?c1525

epistler?a1562

subdeacon1865

postiller1891

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxxxiii^v/1 The whyche lady sawe also come a preest, a deken & a subdeken all reuestyd goyng to thaulter as for to saye masse. And her semed that saynt laurence & saynt vyncent were deken and subdeken And Ihesu crist the preest.]

1520 Market Harborough Rec. (1890) 215 To the parych clerke beynge subdeken iij^d.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 439 When the Pope..sings Masse himselfe, with one Cardinall seruing him as Deacon, and another as subdeacon.

1661 A. Sidney Let. Apr. in Disc. Govt. (1763) ii. 40 He began to sing masse, attended by cardinal Barbarini.., and the cardinals d'Este and Ursini as the ancientest of the deacons.., and Monsignore Bevi l'acqua Vditore di Ruota as subdeacon.

1701 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 101 And his Dæcon, Subdiacon & Acolythe were his 3 sons, brothers to y^e Nonne.

1788 G. Robinson Let. 8 June in Archaeologia (1792) 10 322 The choir supplied the part of subdeacon.

1865 M. E. C. Walcott Cathedralia 148 At Worcester a canon acts as deacon or gospeller, and the sacristan as subdeacon or epistoler.

2007 P. Malloy Celebrating Eucharist v. 54 For an Anglican parish to celebrate the Eucharist in the style of the Roman Solemn Mass..laymen or priests..‘played’ subdeacon.

†2. In Biblical and derived uses: a non-Israelite servant in the ancient Jewish temple, ranking below a Levite in status; = Nethinim n. Cf. Levite n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant

minstrel?c1225

mill-knavec1380

subdeacona1382

rehetoura1425

daily waiter1519

apparitor1533

Nethinim1535

fealc1650

washpot1678

Sunday outer1837

comprador1840

liveryman1841

running dog1969

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) 1 Esdras ii. 70 The prestus and the Leuitus of the puple..and sodeknys [L. Nathinaei].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 462 Sodekene, or subdekene, subdiaconus, nathineus.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iv. iii. 72 The ministers, whiche dyd make redye the sacrifice,..at the commaundement of the Leuites, these we may cal subdeacons.

1724 T. Lewis Origines Hebrææ I. ii. xiv.188 As the Levites were to assist the Priests in the Execution of their Office, so the Nethinims were Servants under them..a sort of Subdeacons in the Jewish Church.]

Derivatives

† sub-deaconhood n. Obsolete rare = subdiaconate n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] > office of

subdeaconrya1500

subdeaconship1563

subdiaconate1697

sub-deaconhood1728

subdeaconate1810

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sub 'Tis disputed among the Romanists, whether the Sub-deaconhood be a Sacrament or not.

1887 H. J. Coleridge St. Mary's Convent iv. 74 He received Minor Orders in 1662, Sub-Deaconhood 28th February, Deaconhood 20th March.

subˈdeaconship n. = subdiaconate n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] > office of

subdeaconrya1500

subdeaconship1563

subdiaconate1697

sub-deaconhood1728

subdeaconate1810

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 430/2 Then they proceaded to the dysgrading of Subdeaconship.

1615 J. Wadsworth in J. Wadsworth & W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. Relig. 13 Subdeaconship [is giuen] by the deliuerie of the Patena alone, and of the Chalice emptie.

1759 tr. Voltaire Candid xv. 54 I was honoured with a sub-deaconship and a lieutenancy.

1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 50 The next step took the acolyte to the sub-deaconship.

1994 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 23 Dec. a26 We candidates for ordination to subdeaconship, deaconship and priesthood wrote out..a petition for ordination.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	subdeacon
释义	subdeaconn. Brit. /ˌsʌbˈdiːk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈˌsəbˈˌdikən/ Forms: α. Old English (rare) Middle English– subdeacon, Old English–1500s 1700s subdiacon, Middle English subdeacone, Middle English subdeakyn, Middle English subdecane, Middle English subdeken, Middle English subdekene, Middle English subdekne, Middle English subdekon, Middle English subdiacone, Middle English subdiakenn, Middle English–1500s subdekyn, Middle English–1500s subdecon, 1500s subdeaken; Scottish pre-1700 subdecane, pre-1700 subdeiken, pre-1700 subdeken, pre-1700 subdekin, pre-1700 subdekyn, pre-1700 subdekyne, pre-1700 subdyaken, pre-1700 1700s– subdeacon; N.E.D. (1914) also records a form Middle English–1500s subdekin. β. Middle English sodeke, Middle English sodeken, Middle English sodekene, Middle English sodekne, Middle English sodekon, Middle English sodekyn, Middle English soodekne, Middle English soudekene, Middle English sudeakne, Middle English suddeken, Middle English suddekene, Middle English sudekene, Middle English sodekun, Middle English sudekyn, Middle English sudyakne; N.E.D. (1914) also records a form Middle English sudekne. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin subdiaconus; French suzdekne, subdiacne. Etymology: Originally (in Old English) < post-classical Latin subdiaconus (see below); subsequently either reinforced by or reborrowed < (i) Anglo-Norman suzdekne, sudiacne, sudiakene, sodekene, subdeken, subdiakene, sudeacone, Anglo-Norman and Old French subdiacne, Old French suzdiakene, soudyakene (c1190; also soudiacre , etc.; French sous-diacre ), and (ii) its model or etymon post-classical Latin subdiaconus (3rd cent.) < classical Latin sub- sub- prefix + post-classical Latin diaconus deacon n.¹, after Hellenistic Greek ὑποδιάκονος (compare hypodeacon n. at hypo- prefix 2). Compare southdeacon n., underdeacon n. at under- prefix¹ 3a(a).Compare also the following unassimilated borrowing of post-classical Latin subdiaconus into Old English, where the word is used with Latin case inflections:OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: De Ecclesiasticis Gradibus (Junius) (1959) 227 Crist wæs subdiaconus, þa þa he gebletsode wæter in Chana Galilęę.OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: De Ecclesiasticis Gradibus (Junius) (1959) 232 Subdiaconi beoð on getacnunge Cristes gespelian, syððan hi þone had underfoð; þæt getacnað þa fata, þe biscop heom on hand sylð. 1. Christian Church. a. A clergyman of an order next below that of deacon, whose duties include assisting in the celebration of the Eucharist by preparing the sacred vessels and formerly (in the Western Catholic Church) reading the Epistle at High Mass.The subdiaconate ranks as the highest of the minor orders of clergy in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, and was the lowest of the major orders of the Western Catholic Church until its abolition in 1972. Although the office of subdeacon does not formally exist in the Anglican Church, laypeople act as subdeacons in the celebration of Holy Eucharist in some congregations: see sense 1c. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] subdeaconOE southdeacon1340 subdeaconrya1500 subdeacon1520 tunicle1554 subdeaconate1810 α. OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxxiii. 335 Ne sceal nan accolitus, þæt is husolþen, forsecgan nanne subdiacon [L. subdiaconum], ne nan exorcista, þæt is halsere, forsecgan nanne accolitum. lOE Rule St. Benet (Faust.) lxii. 141 Hæbbe se abbod swa gecorenne mæssepreost, ægþær ge deacon ge subdiacon [a1225 Winteney subdiacon; L. subdiaconum]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 359 Oon Arator, a subdecon of Rome. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 1051 Ȝyf þou..art a clerk, & hast þe los Of subdekene, or dekene by name. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 59 He þat schuld be mad a bischop schuld first be a benet,..and þan a colet, and þan subdiacone, diacone, and prest. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 281 The Subdeacon mighte take the offring, and handle the Chalice, and the Patine. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. iv. f. 22^v As for Subdeacons, it is likely that at the beginnyng they were ioyned to the Deacons, that they should vse their seruice about the poore. 1615 J. Wadsworth Let. 1 Apr. in W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. in Matter Relig. (1624) 12 [In] England, whereas the Councels require the ordines minores of Subdeacon and the rest, to goe before Priesthood; your Ministers are made per saltum without euer being Subdeacons. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 106 The Priests, Deacons, and Subdeacons of the Easterne Church. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xv. 154 From the minor Orders they are promoted to the Order of Sub-deacon, which is the first of those that are called Holy. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xv. 510 The clergy..consisted of a bishop, forty-six presbyters, seven deacons, as many sub-deacons, [etc]. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. xi. 51 In due time the Subdeacon was raised to the Deaconship. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 326 According to all the Anglo-Saxon and Norman and English Pontificals, it was always the proper office of the Subdeacon to read the Epistle. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 854/2 The ordination of subdeacons, when the bishop lays the vestment on the ordinand's head with the words, [etc.]. 1978 R. J. Halliburton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. iv. v. 318 The Eastern churches of the Byzantine rite [have] five orders of ordained ministers: the three major orders of bishop, presbyter, and deacon, and two further orders of sub-deacon and lector. 2004 Church Times 6 Feb. 22/2 He completed his studies before reaching the canonical age for ordination..so spent nearly 18 months as subdeacon at St Matthew's. β. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 225 (MED) Þe beheste is solempne ase..be holy ordre þet me heþ onderuonge, ase sudyakne oþer dyakne oþer prest.c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 63 Sudeakne mey be ywedded nauȝt.c1425 Myrour to Lewde Men & Wymmen (Harl.) (1981) 166 (MED) The tenthe degree [of lechery] is bytwene a man in holy ordre, as preeste, deken, or sodeken, & a seculer womman.a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 471 Iames Vercellence, the popis sodekon.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 39 Þe clerkis of þi jurisdiccoun, þat are wiþ in þe ordre of sodeken, or a boue.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 371 A Sudekyn, subdiaconus. †b. A vestment or set of vestments to be worn by a subdeacon; spec. = tunicle n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > tunicle subdeacon1423 tuniclec1425 tunic1696 1423 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 75 (MED) De vj l. receptis pro uno vestimento de nigro panno de baudekyn, viz. j casula, deakyn, et subdeakyn, cum una capa ejusdem sectæ..pro uno vestimento..continente j casulam, deakyn, et subdeakyn. 1553 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 52 A preist & a subdeaken of blew bodkin. 1566 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) v. 114 One payer of hangings of the best blewe and vestements with Decon and Subdecon of the same. c. A layperson or other clergyman who performs the role traditionally taken by a subdeacon (in sense 1a) in the celebration of the Eucharist; spec. = epistoler n. 1. Also: the role or part of subdeacon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] subdeaconOE southdeacon1340 subdeaconrya1500 subdeacon1520 tunicle1554 subdeaconate1810 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > epistoler > [noun] pistelerc1475 epistoler?c1525 epistler?a1562 subdeacon1865 postiller1891 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxxxiii^v/1 The whyche lady sawe also come a preest, a deken & a subdeken all reuestyd goyng to thaulter as for to saye masse. And her semed that saynt laurence & saynt vyncent were deken and subdeken And Ihesu crist the preest.] 1520 Market Harborough Rec. (1890) 215 To the parych clerke beynge subdeken iij^d. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 439 When the Pope..sings Masse himselfe, with one Cardinall seruing him as Deacon, and another as subdeacon. 1661 A. Sidney Let. Apr. in Disc. Govt. (1763) ii. 40 He began to sing masse, attended by cardinal Barbarini.., and the cardinals d'Este and Ursini as the ancientest of the deacons.., and Monsignore Bevi l'acqua Vditore di Ruota as subdeacon. 1701 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 101 And his Dæcon, Subdiacon & Acolythe were his 3 sons, brothers to y^e Nonne. 1788 G. Robinson Let. 8 June in Archaeologia (1792) 10 322 The choir supplied the part of subdeacon. 1865 M. E. C. Walcott Cathedralia 148 At Worcester a canon acts as deacon or gospeller, and the sacristan as subdeacon or epistoler. 2007 P. Malloy Celebrating Eucharist v. 54 For an Anglican parish to celebrate the Eucharist in the style of the Roman Solemn Mass..laymen or priests..‘played’ subdeacon. †2. In Biblical and derived uses: a non-Israelite servant in the ancient Jewish temple, ranking below a Levite in status; = Nethinim n. Cf. Levite n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant minstrel?c1225 mill-knavec1380 subdeacona1382 rehetoura1425 daily waiter1519 apparitor1533 Nethinim1535 fealc1650 washpot1678 Sunday outer1837 comprador1840 liveryman1841 running dog1969 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) 1 Esdras ii. 70 The prestus and the Leuitus of the puple..and sodeknys [L. Nathinaei]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 462 Sodekene, or subdekene, subdiaconus, nathineus. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iv. iii. 72 The ministers, whiche dyd make redye the sacrifice,..at the commaundement of the Leuites, these we may cal subdeacons. 1724 T. Lewis Origines Hebrææ I. ii. xiv.188 As the Levites were to assist the Priests in the Execution of their Office, so the Nethinims were Servants under them..a sort of Subdeacons in the Jewish Church.] Derivatives † sub-deaconhood n. Obsolete rare = subdiaconate n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] > office of subdeaconrya1500 subdeaconship1563 subdiaconate1697 sub-deaconhood1728 subdeaconate1810 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sub 'Tis disputed among the Romanists, whether the Sub-deaconhood be a Sacrament or not. 1887 H. J. Coleridge St. Mary's Convent iv. 74 He received Minor Orders in 1662, Sub-Deaconhood 28th February, Deaconhood 20th March. subˈdeaconship n. = subdiaconate n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > subdeacon > [noun] > office of subdeaconrya1500 subdeaconship1563 subdiaconate1697 sub-deaconhood1728 subdeaconate1810 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 430/2 Then they proceaded to the dysgrading of Subdeaconship. 1615 J. Wadsworth in J. Wadsworth & W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. Relig. 13 Subdeaconship [is giuen] by the deliuerie of the Patena alone, and of the Chalice emptie. 1759 tr. Voltaire Candid xv. 54 I was honoured with a sub-deaconship and a lieutenancy. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 50 The next step took the acolyte to the sub-deaconship. 1994 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 23 Dec. a26 We candidates for ordination to subdeaconship, deaconship and priesthood wrote out..a petition for ordination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE
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