discalced
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin discalceātus (“barefoot”) + -ed, rendering French déchaussé.[1] By surface analysis, dis- + calced.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdiscalced (not comparable)
- (Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes. [from 17th c.]
- Brother John is a member of the Discalced Carmelites.
- (formal, more generally) Shoeless; without shoes on; barefoot, or wearing sandals rather than shoes. [from 19th c.]
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 24:
- They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.
Related terms
editTranslations
editpertaining to a religious order that was historically barefoot
References
edit- ^ “discalced”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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