Crossword-Solution: SUBDEACON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subdeacon | n. | One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| cleric who assists at High Mass | 1 answer |
| A CLERGYMAN AN ORDER BELOW DEACON | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SUBDEACON (5)
The church has six pontiffs; the poet is only a subdeacon; but if I must sing my hymn officially, it must be elsewhere." The Archbishop--a man of intelligence who understood the feelings of poets--promised, at the collation which followed the consecration, to give Jasmin the opportunity of reciting the verses which he had composed for the occasion.
But a still greater blow to the privileges of the clergy was struck by the Parliament under the influence of Cromwell, who had elevated it in order to give legality to the despotic measures of the Crown; and in this way a law was passed that no one under the rank of a subdeacon, if convicted of felony, should be allowed to plead his "benefit of clergy," but should be punished like ordinary criminals,--thus re-establishing the constitutions of Clarendon in the time of Becket.
Padre Salvi, in spite of his gravity, wore a look of deep satisfaction, since there were serving him as deacon and subdeacon none less than two Augustinians.
That is to saie, the Bishoppe, the Priest, the Deacon, and subdeacon, the Acholite, and the Chauntour.
With the whiche aftre he hath rauisshed him selfe in the vestrie, vppon solempne feastes, when he entendeth to do masse: he commeth forth to the aultare, hauing on the right side a prieste, on the lefte side a Deacon, a Subdeacon going before him with a booke faste shutte, two candle bearers, and an encensour with the censoure in his hande smoking.