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surpliced

surpliced adjective: wearing a surplice.

Adjective

surpliced (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a surplice.
    • Surpliced Sirs farewell, / I can tell, my name full well.c. 1589, anonymous author, O read me for I am of great antiquitie
    • At Westminster the surplic’d dean / The sad but honourable scene / Prepares.1757, Richard Owen, “To Mr. Whitehead, On his being made Poet Laureat”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, volume 6, London: J. Dodsley, page 338

Examples of surpliced in a sentence

  • The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • After Mass one sunrise the canoes entered the troughs / of the surpliced shallows,1990, Derek Walcott, chapter 1, in Omeros, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 8:

Origin of surpliced

From surplice + -ed.

Words formed from surpliced

Questions about surpliced

What does surpliced mean?
Surpliced means wearing a surplice.
How do you use surpliced in a sentence?
The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
What part of speech is surpliced?
Surpliced is an adjective.

Words near surpliced in the dictionary

  1. surpay
  2. surpays
  3. surpeti
  4. surpetis
  5. surplice
  6. surpliced
  7. surplices
  8. surplus
  9. surplus budget
  10. surplus budgets
  11. surplus killing

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