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Definition of Dalmatic
1. Noun. A long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dalmatic
1. a wide-sleeved vestment [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dalmatic
1. 1. A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia. 2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation. Origin: LL. Dalmatica: cf. F. Dalmatique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dalmatic
Literary usage of Dalmatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"The dalmatic was sometimes worn by prelates as early as the fourth century. St.
Cyprian, just before his martyrdom, " cum se dalmatics ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This super-vestment, worn over the alb and the stole, and by ecclesiastics of
episcopal rank also over the dalmatic and tunic, which in the ilth century was ..."
3. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"The dalmatic was, therefore, from the first a richly ornamented garment ; it not
... The tunic which was especially associated with the dalmatic was the ..."
4. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"... with gold fringe and ornaments of gold; a dalmatic and Tunic of white diaper (the
Stole, Maniple, and Amice were of fky blue) ..."
5. Church Vestments: Their Origin, Use, and Ornament Practically Illustrated by Anastasia Dolby (1868)
"THE dalmatic OF THE DEACON. " I ^HE robe worn at High Mass by the deacon is called
the •*- dalmatic, a name derived from Dalmatia, from whence this form of ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"We shall die fint io>irr allusions t« tbe dalmatic in tbe ... Three centuries
later we find the dalmatic worn as part of a senator's dress in the case of ..."
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