Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as amice.

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Examples

  • He then puts on each of his arms the bazpans or cuffs, which replace the Latin maniple; then the ourar or stole, which is in one piece; then the goti or girdle, then the varkas or amict, which is a large embroidered stiff collar with a shoulder covering to it; and finally the shoochar, or chasuble, which is almost exactly like a

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The alb, the girdle, and the maniple or cuffs on each hand, a peculiar form of amict, the stole (sometimes in Greek and sometimes in Roman form), and the ordinary Roman chasuble make up the vestments worn by the priest at

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The vestments worn by the Priest while celebrating Mass are an amict, or white cloth around the neck; an alb, or white garment reaching to his ankles, and bound around his waist by a cincture; a maniple suspended from his left arm; a stole, which is placed over his shoulders and crossed at the breast; and a chasuble, or large outer garment.

    The Faith of Our Fathers James Gibbons 1877

  • And on the _sedia gestatoria_, screened by the _flabelli_ with their lofty triumphal fans of feathers and carried on high by the bearers in red tunics broidered with silk, sat the Pope, clad in the sacred vestments which he had assumed in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the amict, the alb, the stole, and the white chasuble and white mitre enriched with gold, two gifts of extraordinary sumptuousness that had come from France.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • And on the _sedia gestatoria_, screened by the _flabelli_ with their lofty triumphal fans of feathers and carried on high by the bearers in red tunics broidered with silk, sat the Pope, clad in the sacred vestments which he had assumed in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the amict, the alb, the stole, and the white chasuble and white mitre enriched with gold, two gifts of extraordinary sumptuousness that had come from France.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • Fr. _amict_, an Amict or Amice, part of a massing priest's habit.

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Qui non expertut clKnceJam vel obieqaium amict focentit credit

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793

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