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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dea·con·ess /ˈdikənəs/
 女執事,牧師的女助手

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dea·con·ess n. Eccl. A female deacon; as: (a) Primitive Ch. One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. (b) Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch. A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. (c) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 deaconess
      n : a woman deacon

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Deaconess
    Rom. 16:1, 3, 12; Phil. 4:2, 3; 1 Tim. 3:11; 5:9, 10; Titus 2:3,
    4). In these passages it is evident that females were then
    engaged in various Christian ministrations. Pliny makes mention
    of them also in his letter to Trajan (A.D. 110).