Definitions for diaconate

diaconate di·ac·o·nate

Spelling: [dahy-ak-uh-nit, -neyt]
IPA: /daɪˈæk ə nɪt, -ˌneɪt/

Diaconate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 486 anagrams from letters in diaconate (aacdeinot).

Definitions for diaconate

noun

  1. the office or dignity of a deacon.
  2. a body of deacons.

Origin of diaconate

From the Late Latin word diāconātus, dating back to 1720-30. See deacon, -ate3

Examples for diaconate

There was no historian of the diaconate of the early Church.

The diaconate, the presbyter, priest or elder, and the επισκοπος or bishop.

During the last days of my diaconate, grace, no doubt, enlightened me.

Let us examine the requirements for the diaconate of the early Church.

So early do well-taught Yankee children develop one qualification for the diaconate.

At the diaconate school there was a fellow who wrote verses; and what has become of him?

Those who had been called “managers” were now elected to the diaconate, and new men were added to the number.

These are some of the qualifications spoken of as belonging to the diaconate, and are the same in application to either sex.

Leontius intended his diaconate to be a means of propagating Arianism.

That system was adopted probably about the middle of the 3rd century, but in Rome the diaconate probably remained centralized.

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