Deaconess: alternatives and connections

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular…

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

Of or pertaining to a deacon.

The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer

a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics

Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

The union of male and female gametes to form a zygote

Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom o…

A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.

A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.