deacon

/dee-kuhn/US // ˈdi kən //UK // (ˈdiːkən) //

执事,执事者,执事会,执事会成员

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- : an appointed or elected officer having variously defined duties.
- : either of two officers in a masonic lodge.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to pack with only the finest pieces or the most attractive sides visible.
- : to falsify; doctor.
- : to castrate.
- : to read aloud before singing it.

nounclergyperson

Synonyms

By James McBride“Sportcoat” is a 71-year-old deacon who lives in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969.
He told me how his dad, the deacon, jailed in another cell, used to have sex with him.
The deacon said he is demanding an explanation from Williams.
“His sermons were pretty much from his heart,” the deacon told us.
According to the deacon, Williams made countless house calls and hospital visits whenever he could.
Deacon Williams seemed to confirm this sentiment, saying, “as Christian people, we wanted him to get well.”
Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.
At last Deacon MacNab, the church treasurer and a personage of importance, got a chance to speak.
Of course there had been no organ in this church before, or the worthy deacon might have known more about it.
Then he returned to his province, entered the seminary, and became a sub-deacon of the diocese of Nueva Segovia.
The deacon pounded on the porch with his nearly finished leg, and grew red in the face.
How d'ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?