Word: deaconness
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...crowning a Pope, the officiating cardinal deacon advances, supporting with outstretched arms a tall headdress of cloth-of-gold, sewn with precious stones, encircled with three coronets, surmounted by a cross, and says...
...Trinity College, Oxford, and disappointed everybody by breaking down in his examinations. He had overworked; for 20 weeks before the "schools" (finals) he had crammed an average of 20 hours a day. Later he became Fellow of Oriel, then one of Oxford's most coveted honors; was ordained deacon at 23, eventually became University Preacher...
...Blind enthusiasts for the past can only remind us of that group of grey-bearded New Englanders who, we are told, had gathered about the stove in the little post office at the crossroads, and were bemoaning the regrettable changes and universal degeneration round about them. 'Even Deacon Jones,' added the postmaster, 'isn't the man he used to be.' The approving squire summed it all up when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects...
...Deacon," the rollicking black Army mule will cavort in the Stadium this afternoon in a special one act drama...
...Aged 29, deacon, Protestant Episcopal Church...