deaconeschip

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Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle English, attested for the first time 1565.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

deaconeschip (plural deaconeschipis) (Middle Scots)

  1. 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
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