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Definition of Discalced
1. Adjective. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals. "Discalced friars"
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Antonyms: Calced
Definition of Discalced
1. a. Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.
Definition of Discalced
1. Adjective. shoeless; barefoot; without shoes on; wearing sandals rather than shoes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discalced
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discalced
Literary usage of Discalced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a discalced Recollect, who was consecrated on 26 Feb., 1881, and died in the
same year. The diocese was then left vacant until 1909, its last Apostolic ..."
2. Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1862)
"(2) Lastly, — for we may not linger even over testimonies which are like music
to the ear, — an apostolic missionary, one of that noble band of discalced ..."
3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"... and although it was founded and continued by discalced friars, ... friars may
come to this country, but that all who come be discalced. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Present eight of discalced (Rome, Genoa, Status. Lombardy, Venice, Tuscany,
Piedmont, Aquitaine, and Avignon), in addition to a number of isolated cloisters ..."
5. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"He issued orders to all the provincials to visit every convent and monastery of
the discalced, and castigate all who refused to submit, to depose the ..."
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