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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The office, order, or rank of subdeacon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the order or office of subdeacon.
  • noun The office or order of subdeacon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The office or rank of a subdeacon.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The office or rank of a subdeacon.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin subdiāconātus, from subdiāconus, subdeacon (partial translation of Late Greek hupodiākonos) : Latin sub-, sub- + Late Latin diāconus, deacon; see deacon.]

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