The deacon was killed last night by a stranger. 那个副主祭昨晚被一个陌生人杀死了。
Here, he takes son Deacon and Ava to a movie. 图中,菲利普正带著儿子迪肯和女儿爱娃去看电影。
deacon
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a Protestant layman who assists the minister
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a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
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Deacon \Dea"con\ (d[=e]"k'n), v. t. 1. To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. [Colloq. New. Eng.] See {Line}, v. t.
Note: The expression is derived from a former custom in the Congregational churches of New England. It was part of the office of a deacon to read aloud the psalm given out, one line at a time, the congregation singing each line as soon as read; -- called, also, lining out the psalm.
2. With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc. [Colloq., U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Deacon \Dea"con\ (d[=e]"k'n), n. [OE. diakne, deakne, deken, AS. diacon, deacon, L. diaconus, fr. Gr. dia`konos a servant or minister, a minister of the church; of uncertain origin. In sense 2 prob. confused with dean.] 1. (Eccl.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
2. The chairman of an incorporated company. [Scot.]
"I didn't see anything, but some of the other priests on the altar did," Joe Richard, a deacon of the Lubbock parish.
Best was a deacon at a local Baptist church.
"That didn't look so good, as far as the church itself was concerned," said James L. Lowe, a deacon and member of the church for 60 years.
Hurley said, "There is no intention to take the priest or deacon from the scene.
On Sept. 24, Taylor and two women students at the predominately black Christian college arrived at the church planning to attend the service, but a deacon told them the church had a policy excluding them from worshiping there.
Previously, the highest office women could hold in the Protestant church was deacon.
The course is offered for credit to students in the Episcopal deacon program of the Whitaker School of Theology in Detroit, or to anyone else who wants to transform religious beliefs into activism.
Divorced and remarried, he is a Baptist deacon.
Avery, who worked 17 years as a computer programmer for a Kansas City bank, was a deacon in one of the RLDS congregations dotting the Independence area.