subdeacon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

WordNet

Sub*dea"con noun
Etymology
Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L. subdiaconus.
Definitions
  1. (Eccl.) One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.

Webster 1913