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Definition of Chasuble
1. Noun. A long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass.
Definition of Chasuble
1. n. The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
Definition of Chasuble
1. Noun. The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chasuble
1. a sleeveless vestment [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chasuble
Literary usage of Chasuble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Protestant Dictionary: Containing Articles on the History, Doctrines, and by Charles Henry Hamilton Wright, Charles Neil (1904)
""Will you go on," he says, " with a bad chasuble or a bad boot 1 Then why ...
Pro- copins, AD 530, speaks of the chasuble as being a cloak of a slave or of ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Like the other sacred vestments the chasuble, before use, requires to be blessed
by a priest who has faculties for that purpose. When assumed in vesting for ..."
3. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"You are too much alone, dear Dr. chasuble. You should get married. ... chasuble [with
a scholar's shudder]. Believe me, I do not deserve so neol- ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"chasuble dedicated by and his wife Gisela, as the Hungarian Fig. 5-—Modern Roman
chasuble of Archbishop Bourne of Westminster. Coronation Robe. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"(abo called a chasuble), and to have a pastoral staff born« by himself or shis
chaplain. The officiating priest was to wear a white alb, plain, ..."
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