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Webster 1913 Edition


Surpliced

Sur′pliced

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Adj.
Wearing a surplice.

Webster 1828 Edition


Surpliced

SUR'PLICED

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Adj.
Wearing a surplice.

Definition 2024


surpliced

surpliced

English

Adjective

surpliced (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a surplice.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, [] down the nave to the western door. [] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.