Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A priest's vestment; a chasuble.
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Examples
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The fresh part of the house was burned, as well as the druid under the casula, and not a bit of the _casula_ was destroyed.
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Called in Latin casula planeta or pænula, and in early Gallic sources amphibalus, the principal and most conspicuous Mass vestment, covering all the rest.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Last, the priest puts on the chasuble, from the Latin word casula--”a little house”--named so because of the way it envelops his body.
An Instructed Eucharist Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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Last, the priest puts on the chasuble, from the Latin word casula--”a little house”--named so because of the way it envelops his body.
Archive 2007-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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You will note that they are all wearing the "paenula", "casula" or chasuble in its civil form.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Patrick: "that I should bring from hell on the Day of Judgment seven persons for every hair in this _casula_."
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Bishop Mel's sister then went with fire in her _casula_, Patrick then knew there was no sin between them, dicens, "Seorsum feminis ne occasione dare infirmis inveniamur et ne non Domini per nos blasfemaretur quod absit a nobis, et sic reliquit eos," _i. e.
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"You shall have this _casula_, O nun!" said Patrick.
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Cumque ad insulam Cathaci uenisset, beatus Senanus aduentum eius, Spiritu reuelante, didicit; eique obuiam ueniens quasi subridendo ait, "Nonne presbitero pudor est absque casula incedere?"
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Patrick afterwards cried until his face and the front of his _casula_
hernesheir commented on the word casula
chasuble
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word casula
Sardinian last name.
December 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word casula
A suburb of Sydney is called Casula.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word casula
Then it must be Sardinian.
December 3, 2010