in the English Church, are those of priest and deacon. In the Roman Church the term includes the sub-diaconate. (See Minor Orders.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.