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Definition of Deaconed
1. deacon [v] - See also: deacon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaconed
Literary usage of Deaconed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of My Life, Or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897)
"Sunday Services in a Church without a Floor, Windows, or Door — How the
Minister "deaconed off" the Hymn — Reciting Scripture with a "Hop, Skip, ..."
2. Publications by Bostonian Society, Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, Kansas State Historical Society (1906)
"... and other modern structures, its surface cut up by iron rails, and find it
filled with country sleds, laden with well-deaconed firewood, or barrels of ..."
3. James Russell Lowell: A Biography by Horace Elisha Scudder (1901)
"... through glasses dim, In age's treble deaconed off the hymn, Paused o'er long
words and then with breathless pace Went down a slope of short ones at a ..."
4. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"In New England this custom persisted generally in 1726, though some churches by
this time had books, and sang without waiting for the hymn to be " deaconed. ..."
5. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1900)
"In New England this custom persisted generally in 1726, though some churches by
this time had books, and sang without waiting for the hymn to be " deaconed. ..."
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