calceated
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (“forming verbs”), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -o (“forming verbs”), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”). Doublet of calcated.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kælsiˈeɪtəd/
Adjective edit
calceated (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 23:
- Prior to our perambulation of the prairie, I invested my crural organs with good gambados or spatterdashes, and had my pedal extremities well calceated, as a propugnation against the mordacity of amphisbaenas.
- 1925, The Train Dispatcher - Volume 7, page 381:
- He should, however, also be calceated.
- 1935, Ernest Oscar Thedinga, Secularization in Bavaria during the Napoleonic era, page 79:
- All Carmelites, both the barefoot and the calceated orders, were to be collected in the institutions at Straubing, while all the Augustinians were to be placed in the Augustinian monastery at Munich.
Verb edit
calceated
- simple past and past participle of calceate
References edit
- “calceated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.