[ad. med.L. subdiāconātus, f. subdiāconus SUBDEACON; cf. F. sous-diaconat.] The office or rank of subdeacon.

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1725.  trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. v. 178. The Manner of conferring the Subdiaconate.

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1847.  Maskell, Mon. Rit., III. p. civ. These minor orders, and I now include the subdiaconate, were not of divine institution.

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1867.  H. C. Lea, Sacerd. Celib., iii. (1884), 54. The restriction on matrimony has never at any time extended below the subdiaconate.

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