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gremials

gremials is the plural of gremial.

Meaning of gremial

Noun

gremial (plural gremials)

  1. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
  2. (obsolete) A bosom friend.
    • These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and...1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge

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Questions about gremials

What is gremials the plural of?
Gremials is the plural of gremial.

Words near gremials in the dictionary

  1. Grelling
  2. Grelling-Nelson paradox
  3. Grells
  4. grem
  5. gremial
  6. gremials
  7. Gremillion
  8. Gremillions
  9. GREML
  10. gremlin
  11. gremlinesque

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