calceated
US/kælsiˈeɪtəd/
calceated adjective: synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders. Also the simple past and past participle of calceate.
Adjective
calceated (not comparable)
- Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
- Prior to our perambulation of the prairie, I invested my crural organs with good gambados or spatterdashes, and had my pedal extremities well calceated, as a propugnation against the mordacity of amphisbaenas.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 23
- He should, however, also be calceated.1925, The Train Dispatcher - Volume 7, page 381
- Synonyms:
- shod
Also used as
calceated is also the simple past and past participle of calceate.
Synonyms of calceated
Origin of calceated
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.
Questions about calceated
- What does calceated mean?
- Calceated means synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
- What part of speech is calceated?
- Calceated is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce calceated?
- Calceated is pronounced /kælsiˈeɪtəd/ (US).
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