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Definition of Amice
1. n. A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.
2. n. A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.
Definition of Amice
1. a vestment worn about the neck and shoulders [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amice
Literary usage of Amice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"I.—amice of the Present Day. is now worn under the alb, except at Milan and Lyons,
... Medieval Method of putting on the amice. some exceptional cases, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"The amice was originally a square 01 oblong piece of linen, somewhat such as that
which ... we hear, for the first time, of ornaments of (oM on the amice. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1902)
"In the review of my little work in December's number of the Antiquary, it is
stated that the term " furred amice " which I used in reference to the Prior's ..."
4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"... to throw, put. amice, a pilgrim's robe. ... or amice;' Cot. We also find OF amis,
.... amice ..."
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