Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office, order, or rank of subdeacon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or order of subdeacon.
- Relating to the order or office of subdeacon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.
- noun 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
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Examples
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The subdiaconate is the lowest of the sacred or major orders in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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On the 23rd of May, they had ordinations to the subdiaconate for three of their members.
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July 1, 2009, Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord, -- In the ICRSP seminary in Gricigliano: Solemn Pontifical Mass by Bishop John Basil Meeking, with ordinations to the subdiaconate and diaconate.
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The responsible position in which he was thus placed seems to have shaken for a time his persuasion that he had a true vocation for the priesthood; but after consultation with a friend who knew him well, his doubts vanished, and on the eve of Trinity Sunday in this same year he was admitted to the subdiaconate.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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He received the confessions of his monks [there are instances of those who were not priests usurping this office (Marin, op. cit., 96)] and could ordain them to minor Orders, including the subdiaconate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In the East, moreover, the subdiaconate has remained a minor order; in the West it was gradually detached from the minor orders, on account of its higher liturgical functions and also because of the vow of celibacy it called for.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Many canonists hold that the subdiaconate, being of merely ecclesiastical institution, was formerly amounted one of the minor orders of the Church, and infer that before the time of Urban II (1099), Abbots could have given that order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Château-Gontier, he studied philosophy in the seminary of Le Mans, where he received the subdiaconate in 1839.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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It is a much-disputed question whether Abbots have ever been permitted to confer the subdiaconate and the diaconate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In December, 1724, he received minor orders, and the subdiaconate in September, 1725.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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