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Definition of Deaconing
1. deacon [v] - See also: deacon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaconing
Literary usage of Deaconing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts: From the Grant of Dorchester Canada to by Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838- (1887)
"Deaconing THE HYMN. BASS VIOL. — MUSICAL FAMILIES. LATER MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL
CHOIR. THE METHODIST CHOIR. THE men of Ashburnham have produced their ..."
2. Musical Reporter (1841)
"This process, which was technically called deaconing, we once considered entirely
... The days of deaconing are not past. Perhaps we should rather say, ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting by Richard Miller Devens (1865)
"Deaconing both Ends of the Barrel. is preparing and packing fruit for the market,
the practice of "deaconing," as it is called, is very extensively ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1831 It was the custom in many parts of New England to sing tho psalms and hymns
by " deaconing " them, that is, by the deacon's reading each line previous ..."
5. The Pilgrim Republic: An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth by John Abbot Goodwin (1879)
"1 " Deaconing " or " lining-out" the hymn or psalm, was established in England
... Before " deaconing " came, there was no preliminary reading of the psalm. ..."
6. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1849)
"... for their agricultural products—leaving the inhumanity and barbarity of the
practice of deaconing them, (as killing young is termed,) out of view. ..."
7. Autobiography of Rev. Abel C. Thomas: Including Recollections of Persons by Abel Charles Thomas (1852)
"Mostly there was necessity for ' deaconing the hymns'—that is ... I remember one
occasion in which 'deaconing' brought me no aid whatever. ..."
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