deaconeschip

Middle Scots

Etymology

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

Noun

deaconeschip (plural deaconeschipis)

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “deaconeschip” in Scots Dictionary