deaconeschip

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)

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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Further reading edit

“deaconeschip” in Scots Dictionary

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