subdiˈaconate
[ad. med.L. subdiāconātus, f. subdiāconus subdeacon; cf. F. sous-diaconat.]
The office or rank of subdeacon.
| 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 178 The Manner of conferring the Subdiaconate. 1847 W. Maskell Mon. Rit. III. p. civ, These minor orders, and I now include the sub⁓diaconate, were not of divine institution. 1867 H. C. Lea Sacerd. Celib. iii. (1884) 54 The restriction on matrimony has never at any time extended below the subdiaconate. |