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Deacon


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.
  • (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two fish ponds, bakery and chicken farm that used to be the pride and joy of its chief deacon, Barrisa Tete Dooh, lie abandoned, covered in a thick black layer.
  • (2) It means the church has adopted a position which maintains a traditional view of marriage between a man and woman, but allows individual congregations to “opt out” if they wish to appoint a minister or a deacon in a same-sex civil partnership.
  • (3) The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing people in same-sex civil partnerships to be called as ministers and deacons.
  • (4) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
  • (5) After the concert, which also included performances from Immortal Technique, Das Racist and Dan Deacon, thousands of protesters marched south down Broadway, closed to traffic by the police, to the financial district.
  • (6) The first comprised 70 white and 365 black adult smokers seen at the Deaconness Family Medicine Center located in Buffalo, NY.
  • (7) It turns out that they were all previously at Deacon's.
  • (8) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.
  • (9) Jonathan Deacon, a business expert at University of Wales said the collapse of Peacocks could be hugely damaging to the country.
  • (10) A report from the Theological Forum, ordered by last year’s assembly, concluded there were not “sufficient theological grounds to deny nominated individual ministers and deacons the authority to preside at same-sex marriages”.
  • (11) Thomas Deacon Academy, for example, has been formed from three schools, one of which - Deacon's - was highly desirable, while the others were less successful.
  • (12) As well as the many works by artists few people have heard of, there will be works by higher profile names, with the sculptor Cornelia Parker, curating a room based on the theme of black and white, inviting contributions from Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Mona Hatoum, David Shrigley, Christian Marclay and last year's Turner Prize winner, Laure Prouvost.
  • (13) Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) Osborne: being an MP in Cheshire "opened my eyes" to the north.
  • (14) Some 50 per cent of the pupils came from Deacon's and inevitably their dominance has affected the atmosphere.
  • (15) Her first show, Objects and Sculpture (1981), included work by Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.
  • (16) With Queen (Brian May – guitar, John Deacon – bass, Roger Taylor – drums) he's had four years to survey the scene and build up the frenzied grassroots following which left him impervious to the lack of affection in other quarters.
  • (17) To investigate the cardiac muscle damage observed in pheochromocytoma, New England Deaconness Hospital rats were implanted subcutaneously with a transplantable pheochromocytoma.
  • (18) She became a deacon at St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, and has also served at St Aldate's Church, Oxford, and in the Old Ford parishes in London.
  • (19) He joined a local Presbyterian church, where Kelley became a deacon and their children played instruments at church events.
  • (20) Their driver, a cleric with the rank of deacon, was shot and killed in the attack.

Deaconess


Definition:

  • (n.) A female deacon
  • (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.
  • (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
  • (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present data underline the important role of monoamine oxidase in the removal of excessive quantities of catecholamines released by the tumor in New England Deaconess Hospital rats with the pheochromocytoma implant.
  • (2) We tested whether human CR2 expression on RINm5F cells would affect tumorigenesis after transplantation to syngeneic New England Deaconess Hospital rats.
  • (3) These high mol wt peptides, with apparent mol wt of 20,000 and 10,000, are approximately the same size as the two major immunoreactive peptides found in adult New England Deaconess Hospital rat adrenal.
  • (4) We used New England Deaconess Hospital rats harboring pheochromocytomas to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to high concentrations of catecholamines on desensitization of alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor-mediated responses activated by catecholamines.
  • (5) In an effort to determine the patterns of failure and survival of colon cancer, a retrospective review of 294 patients who underwent potentially curative surgery at the New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH) was performed.
  • (6) The ordination of deaconesses was resumed after an interval of several centuries, and he brought women into theological colleges and communal councils, though he was against them becoming priests.
  • (7) The growth and metabolic effects of a transplantable radiation-induced rat insulinoma were examined in intact male and female New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH) rats, and in parathyroidectomised or adrenalectomised male NEDH rats.
  • (8) Accumulation of catecholamines in erythrocytes (RBC) was compared to rising plasma levels of catecholamines at weekly intervals following transplantation of pheochromocytoma (line P-259) in the New England Deaconess Hospital rat strain.
  • (9) Dan Barouch, who led the study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, called the trial results “a step forwards in the development of a Zika virus vaccine”, but said more research lay ahead.
  • (10) In an effort to determine the influence of BVI on the patterns of failure and survival in rectosigmoid and rectal cancer, a retrospective review of 168 patients who underwent potentially curative surgery at the New England Deaconess Hospital was performed.
  • (11) We have previously found that alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists may ameliorate the hypertension and cardiomyopathy found in New England Deaconess Hospital rats implanted with pheochromocytoma.
  • (12) A retrospective chart review of 20 patients cared for by Deaconess Home Health Care Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts, illustrates the wide variation in individual narcotic requirements necessary to achieve pain control.
  • (13) Career: Educated at Queen's School, Chester; St Hilda's College, Oxford; also at St John's College, Nottingham and the Open University; taught in India 1977-1979; youth worker at Shrewsbury House, Liverpool, 1979; ordained as a deaconess in 1982, worked at St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill; chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge, 1985-90 (became a deacon in 1987); chaplain at Gloucester Cathedral, 1990-94; ordained as a priest in 1994; canon pastor and then also vice provost, Coventry Cathedral, 1994-2000; provost (the first woman provost in the Church of England) then dean of Leicester 2000–12; member of the General Synod, 2003-12; dean of York 2012-present.
  • (14) The frequency and nature of exertion pains of the leg in athletes were studied in 2,750 cases of overuse injuries treated at the Sports Clinic of the Deaconess Institute of Oulu, Finland, during the years 1972-1977.
  • (15) However, the norepinephrine content of several peripheral tissues of these rats did not differ from those of the New England Deaconess Hospital control rats, and their dopamine content, although slightly higher, was much lower than would have been expected from the plasma dopamine levels.
  • (16) On her return from India she worked on Merseyside before training to became a deaconess – then the closest a woman could come to the priesthood – in 1982.
  • (17) From an imaging standpoint, the abnormalities in the brain are very severe when compared to other congenital infections,” said the study’s co-author Dr Deborah Levine of Beth Israel Deaconess medical centre and a radiology professor at Harvard Medical School.
  • (18) At New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH), identifying nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems treated during the patient's hospitalization and saving this information as part of the computerized core clinical data base is essential to a professional practice model for the delivery of nursing care.
  • (19) We have investigated this possibility in New England Deaconess Hospital rats harboring a transplantable pheochromocytoma that secretes norepinephrine and dopamine.
  • (20) New England Deaconess rats (a Wistar-derived strain) harbor a transplantable pheochromocytoma which has many features reminiscent of the human disease.

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