deaconeschip
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle English, attested for the first time 1565.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
deaconeschip (plural deaconeschipis) (Middle Scots)
- deaconship (the office of deacon)
- 1581, Thomson, Thomas, Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland[1]:
- He hes vsit … the deaconeschip to haue the cure of the ecclesiasticall guidis
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “deaconeschip” in Scots Dictionary