Arthur Masterman had long ago come to regard those Diaconal high teas with a kind of sombre merriment.
"Masterman and Son"
W. J. Dawson
But not a breath of it to you meanwhile, Miss Butterfly; flit about freely and joyously while you may; I would not spoil your untrammelled flight for worlds by trying to tether it too soon around the fixed centre of my own poor doubtful Diaconal destinies.
"Philistia"
Grant Allen
In the sixth century it is enumerated among Diaconal churches.
"Rome"
Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker Hope Malleson