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English
Etymology
From Latin archidiāconus + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
archidiaconal (not comparable)
- (Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Pertaining to an archdeacon.
1604, William Tooker, chapter 6, in Of the Fabrique of the Church and Church-Mens Livings, London: John Norton, page 120:[…] they giue good allowance of Episcopal dignitie & their iurisdiction but they vtterly disallow and would gladly infringe Archidiaconall power and weaken that first.
- 1787, William Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine, of Durham, Newcastle: S. Hodgson, Volume 2, pp. 88-89,
- by compromise it was settled, that the prior should enjoy archidiaconal jurisdiction in the churches of Jarrow and Weremouth, and Goldesburgh throughout the rest for life.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Chapter 3, page 26:[…] his Phi Beta Kappa key shone against a spotty black vest; he smelled of old pipes; he was altogether funereal and archidiaconal; and to real-estate brokerage and the jobbing of bathroom-fixtures he added an aroma of sanctity.
2001, Alan Bennett, “The Laying on of Hands” in Four Stories, London: Profile Books:With Father Jolliffe cringing under the archidiaconal disapproval it ought to have been a chilling moment and, by Treacher at least, savoured and briefly enjoyed […]
2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:Hicks wrote in the diary in July 1913 about the arrangements for the two forthcoming archidiaconal installations.
Translations
pertaining to an archdeacon