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Webster 1913 Edition
Subdeacon
Sub-dea′con
,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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subdeacon
SUBDEACON
,Noun.
Definition 2024
subdeacon
subdeacon
See also: sub-deacon
English
Noun
subdeacon (plural subdeacons)
- A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
Translations
cleric below a deacon
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cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass
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References
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subdeacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “subdeacon” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “subdeacon” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- "subdeacon" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.