Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Subdeacon \Sub*dea"con\, n. [Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L.
subdiaconus.] (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.
[1913 Webster] Subdeaconry
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
subdeacon
n 1: 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