Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or concerning a deacon or the diaconate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a deacon; of the nature of a deacon's duties: as, the diaconal office; diaconal ministrations.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a deacon.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a deacon or the diaconate lay clergy.

Etymologies

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

[Late Latin diāconālis, from diāconus, deacon; see deacon.]

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