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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

a-dikt': Found only in the King James Version of 1Co 16:15, for Greek tasso. The house of Stephanus is said to be "addicted to the ministry of the saints," i.e. they have so "arranged" their affairs as to make of this service a prime object; the Revised Version (British and American) "set themselves to minister."