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Definition of Surplices
1. surplice [n] - See also: surplice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surplices
Literary usage of Surplices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"Children of the Chapel Royal, in surplices, with Scarlet Mantles over them.
Choir of Westminster, in surplices. Organ Blower. Groom of the Vestry. ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... white surplices, for the feast of Pentecost. Pu£ia sajs: "The alb« should Ъе
nude with ... surplices ..."
3. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1890)
"surplices WITHOUT CASSOCKS. We all know that one of the most frightful breaches
of ecclesiastical etiquette that can nowadays ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1883)
"The churchwardens were also required to procure "two Holland surplices and a Hudd
for Mr. Pigott," as it afterwards appeared that he maintained the use of ..."
5. Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury by Walter Farquhar Hook (1872)
"Clergy in surplices mobbed.—Insults offered to the archbishop's chaplains.—Forms
observed in celebrating.—London clergy cited before the Ecclesiastical ..."
6. The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those by Benjamin Brook (1813)
"... the use of the surplice, that, at evening prayer. all the collegians, except
three, cast off their surplices, and appeared in the chapel without them ! ..."
7. Worship in the Church of England by Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope (1874)
"Purchas on a maximum and minimum — Blunder of not observing convertibility of
alb and surplice — Canon on surplices, for benefit of ratepayers — Bishop ..."
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