\ 
DEA 
Way's: Work, in Sea Language, dencies the reckoning or 
account of the fhip’s courte, during twenty-four hours, o 
between noon and noon, according to the rules of trigono- 
metry. See Dean-reckoniag. 
Davy-Writ. or Day-rule, in Law, a rule or order of 
court, aelei a prifoner i in cultody in the } king ’e bench 
on, &c. to go withont the bounds of Ns ae ior one day. 
30 Geo. oe 
rs 
iu term-time ; 
for their contempt or mifbrhaviour. . 88. ; 
Days in Bank, are days fet down by itatate, or 
order of the court, when writs fhall be returned, or 
when the party thall ee oa the writ ferved. See ttat. 
ei val 2 a 2. en. VIII. c. 21. 16 Car. I. 
c. 6. 2 §. And by the fttatute “ De 
auno bitieatii,” (21 H. III.) the day increafing in - 
leap-year, ane has al next going before, are to be 
counted but o 
t is peennes tad. that the day of Nifi Prius, and the 
day in the Bank, are one, day; but this is to be underitood 
as to pleading, and not ‘to other urpofes. (1 Inf. 135.) 
But after iffue found for the plaintiff at the Nifi Prius, if 
a day be given in Bank, and the defendant makes default, 
judgment fhali be given againft in. (2. Dany. Ab. 477 
Da Grace. See Day 
Grace, in Commerce, are a number of days al- 
lowed ro ica for the payment of a bill of exchange af- 
ter the fame oo dug; ie after the time it was ace 
cepted for is ex 
In England, die days of grace are allowed: fo that 
bill accepted, in order to be paid, ¢. gr. ten days after i. 
ig not to be paid till thirteen days. Throughout ae 
they allow ten, days of grace; as many at Da ntzics e€ é at 
enice, Amfte rdam, | Rotterdam 
ipfi 
ee 
S es thirty in Genoa, &e. 
grace. 
ays-AZan ia ufed, in fome parts of England, for an ar- 
and it has been obferved, that the word 
See RemMEMBRANCER. 
Days, Fifa. ABSTINENCE. 
Days, Dog, Dies caniculares. See CANICULAR. 
D oe Grical. Dies critict. See Criricat days. 
Days, Lniercalary, additional. See INTERCALARY days. 
DAYA, in Geography, a town fituated on the welt coaft 
of the ifland of ie on ariver of the fame name; 30 
miles S. of Achce 
L,YMAR, a town of Arabia, in the country of Omar: 
220 miles S. of Mafca 
DAYTON, a inal Pitieinent of America, in the ftate 
of Ohio, and cou ntgom 
EA, in Ge wns a town of F Peni in the oe of 
Segeftan, bs miles S. W. of Kin 
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DEA 
Dea Vocontiorum, Die, in Ancient Geography, a town of 
Gallia Viennenfis. which belongcd-to the Vocontims. 
DEABAGEN, in Geography, a town of Afia, in the 
country ot Candahar ; 30 miles . of Candahar. 
-ACON, Dane. in Ecclefgftical Hifiory, a perfon 
who belonged to tne inferior order of minifters in-the Chrif. 
tian church. 
The word is formed au hi Hatin diac conus, of the 
Greek diaxoros, minifter, ferva 
Deacons were firit iatasaned, feven i in number, by the 
apoltles, Acts, c 
time in feveral churches. 
of eleemofynaries in the 
n the dgapz, and to diftribute al bat and 
municanis, and difpenfe the alm 
Their original inftitution was to ferve tables, one office 
included the care of the poor, aud an attendance at the 
Lord’s table. 
at leaft, the bifhops or pr 
eucharift, ‘ delivering the elements to the communic 
art. Tertullian informs Usy 
g ir 
natius calls them (ubi {upra) “ the fervants 
t ne ee fet apart on purpofe to ferve God, an 
attend on their bufuelt, bane conitituted, as nie terms 
« for the fervice es the ‘a > King’s 
at ite firft cade: atruft in 
things merely temporal, or what Jerom called ‘the fervice of 
tables and widows,”’? They were no other than what, in mo-~ 
dern language, we fhould call i church’s almoners. Nor 
is it any objeétion, as Dr. Campbell fuggetts (Le&. on 
Ecclefiattical Saehe vol. i. p. oak that we find both 
Stephen and Philip, who were among the feven deacons 
that were firlt prefen mn by the people to the apoftles, ex- 
ercifing {piritual Fanétions, fuch as preaching and bzptizing. 
his power they certainly did not derive.from the fuperin- 
Sifinbuith fom the miniry of the word. (A fy Vi, I— 
t ontrary 
om thar title, 
tire deacon peetne ae qualified perfon, in that ftate of 
th for promoting the common caufe, 
€ 
his offic that we may not 
confound them, or afcribe to the one what belonged — 
