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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Pref.

sub-

deacon

: cf. L.

subdiaconus

(Eccl.)

One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.

Noun.

[sub and deacon.] An under deacon; a deacons servant, in the Romish church.