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archidiaconate

British  
/ ˌɑːkɪdaɪˈækənɪt /

noun

  1. the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon

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Bryce, Master, 149, 170 Buckingham, Archidiaconate of, 174 —— John, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 220, 223, 226, 249, 273, 322n.,

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The soldier had stuck at Major-General; the churchman bloomed unremarked in an archidiaconate; and though the Right Honourable Bailley seemed to have sneaked into the privy council, I have still to learn what he did when he had got there.

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