Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shod; wearing shoes: as, a calced Carmelite (that is, one who does not belong to the discalced or barefooted order of Carmelites).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from
discalced orbarefooted ; as thecalced Carmelites.
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- adjective rare Wearing
shoes ; used especially ofreligious orders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of certain religious orders who wear shoes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maybe they can right the ship next season..... calced
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Sorry--I'll find out when I see the last episode. calced
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At least two bloggers who live in that neighborhood if in much smaller homes have calced Gore's usage as coming at 4 or 5 times theirs on a kWh per square foot basis.
Do As I Say! (T) 2007
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Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor
Ulysses 2003
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Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The calced Augustinians also made their elections -- but not so quickly that we could avoid sending to them to remind them not to allow the disturbances of other times to occur in their chapter -- by having made them beforehand through their devotion to the outgoing provincial, who managed the succession for another as worthy as he.
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As all we who are bishops are informing his Majesty, those from whom that permission could with justice be taken away are the calced Augustinian friars; for this province of that order is very lax, and all who come from there become inactive, and most of them become traders, and skin the natives.
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[95] See the various letters relating to the controversy between the calced and discalced religious of the Order of St. Francis, in _Vol_.
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Majesty that no other orders may go there -- even though they be the same orders in name, under pretext that they are of another mode of living; for Fray Luis Sotelo endeavored to introduce there the calced friars in the Order of St. Francis, while the people are well contented with the discalced friars.
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Cibu, where the convents of the calced and discalced religious of
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