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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Deaconeschip, n. [e.m.E. (1565).] The office of deacon (in the church). —1581 Bk. Univ. Kirk II. 491.
He hes vsit … the deaconeschip to haue the cure of the ecclesiasticall guidis
