deacon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Freemasonry
ecclesiastical
entertainment
freemasonry
lifestyle
music
religion
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English deken, dekne, from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).
Inflected forms:
form: deacons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deacons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deaconing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deaconed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deaconed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
pos: noun
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
pos: noun
tags: Mormonism
broadly
gloss: A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The chairman of an incorporated company.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: To ordain to the diaconate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on the 29th September, 1624, by John, Bishop of Sodar and Man.
Chapman was a lay missionary and was not deaconed until 1844 and priested in 1852.
Thus, Samuel Seabury... was deaconed by the Bishop of Lincoln and priested by the Bishop of Carlisle.
gloss: For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
pos: verb
gloss: To kill a calf shortly after birth.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.
It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed — after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins that was on top.
gloss: To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
Related words: diaconal
diaconate
Derived words: archdeacon
deaconal
deaconate
deaconess
deaconhood
deaconise
deaconize
deaconly
deaconry
deacon-seat
deaconship
hierodeacon
protodeacon
subdeacon
underdeacon
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