English dictionary
subdeacon
/s/@/b'd/i/k/@/n/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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.
Source: webster1913