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Definition of Discalceate
1. Adjective. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals. "Discalced friars"
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Antonyms: Calced
Definition of Discalceate
1. v. t. To pull off shoes or sandals from.
Definition of Discalceate
1. Verb. (rare) To remove shoes or other footwear. ¹
2. Adjective. barefoot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discalceate
Literary usage of Discalceate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"Moreover, it is decreed that all Carmelites of the first rule, vulgarly called
discalceate, shall be removed from all their convents which they have ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"A brief of Gregory XIII. allowed a special provincial for the younger branch of
the discalceate nuns, and a royal rescript created a protective board of ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... discalceate, Clare, Gilbertine, etc. nurse, n. attendant (contextual),
nutrice (rare), mammy (a child's name of affection; often spec, in southern US); ..."
4. Jeremy Taylor by Edmund Gosse (1904)
"... and discalceate as old friends. All these have preserved their place in our
dictionaries, and although none of them is in common use to-day, ..."
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