Word Meanings - CASSOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment. (more info) 1. A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their
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A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment. (more info) 1. A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
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- OUTER
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - OUTERLY
1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew. - OFFICIATE
To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service. Bp. Stillingfleet. - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - CLERGYMAN
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church. - FROCKED
Clothed in a frock. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - FROCK
1. To clothe in a frock. 2. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. - WOMEN
pl. of Woman. - CLERGYABLE
Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone. - CERTAINNESS
Certainty. - CLERGY
clergie confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See 1. The body - OUTERMOST
Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle. - CERTAIN
1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer. - SOLDIERSHIP
Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - SHOUTER
One who shouts. - SOUTER
A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - FLOUTER
One who flouts; a mocker. - PLOUTER
To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling. - TOUTER
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - SOUTERLY
Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - POUTER
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym: