How To Use Surplice In A Sentence
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Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
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‘He was very serious in his white surplice and black soutane,’ recalled one former friend.
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She threw in the Dacron cassock and surplice, too, the scent lingering.
TOUCH
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However, it doesn't match any of the new surplices that have been bought, which go down to about knee level, so I'll not be allowed to wear it in future - at least, not when I'm singing with the rest of my choir.
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But in Victorian times it suffered a slow demise, as barrel organs and harmoniums replaced the bands, and a surpliced choir in the chancel tended to supersede the old gallery singers, bringing a return to conventional art music.
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In assisting the bishop they dispense with the cuculla, and wear the almuce over the surplice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The cape of fur, which hung down to the knees and was set over a kind of surplice of yellow silk, was open in front, revealing its wearer's naked bosom that was clothed only with row upon row of round gems of the size of a hazel nut.
Red Eve
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Powerful lights made their white surplices glow like neon, and the pulpitted priest seemed to be borne aloft on a cloud of pure radiance.
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This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices.
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In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock.
Ars Celebrandi as it relates to the Usus Antiquior
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In addition some suspected that liberals might find themselves in the dock for failing, contrary to church law, to wear proper church vesture such as cassock and surplice.
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Scotland. 28 He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley
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Also, McIlvaine ‘used his episcopal authority to limit processionals, surpliced choirs, and other musical innovations’.
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Next came a double file of priests in their surplices, with a missal in one hand and a lighted wax taper in the other, chanting the funeral dirge at intervals -- now pausing, and then again taking up the mournful burden of their lamentation, accompanied by others, who played upon a rude kind of bassoon, with a dismal and wailing sound.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
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History will be made that weekend when the standard of the order will be raised in the town by the local Knights, who wear a surplice with the cross emblem.
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The Litany was regarded by Knox as rather of the nature of magic than of prayer, the surplice was a Romish rag, and there was some other objection to the congregation's taking part in the prayers by responses, though they were not forbidden to mingle their voices in psalmody.
John Knox and the Reformation
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In addition to the surplice we find frequent early mention of a "cotta".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The only other dark face in the photo is that of Francois, who, dressed in the cassock and surplice of an acolyte, stands to one side of the pastor.
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A piano was played, hymns were sung, we all duly recited the confession, creeds and responses, and the curate ascended the pulpit with surplice flowing.
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A surplice is a knee-length white tunic, a shorter version of the anklelength alb.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark, and with two barrels, one of single, and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
The Waverley
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So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
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The rector of Chance came slowly past them with his surplice starched over the black cassock and turned at the chancel steps.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley
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The choristers wore shirt and tie (long ties for the boys and bowties for the men) with black robes over their shoulders (not their liturgical cassocks and surplices).
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Puritans called the surplice, and first hung up by some Puritan or
Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
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This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices.
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{54} The Litany was regarded by Knox as rather of the nature of magic than of prayer, the surplice was a Romish rag, and there was some other objection to the congregation's taking part in the prayers by responses, though they were not forbidden to mingle their voices in psalmody.
John Knox and the Reformation
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Its trade is chasubles and mitres, stoles and lace surplices, Roman collars and cardinal red socks, packed thick into its dark wood cupboards.
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No" said the man "Mr. Roberts who is sorting surplices in the vestry is the parson.
Daisy Ashford: Her Book
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Yet so inconsistent is human nature, so given to forms which it calls creeds, that when I afterwards put on the surplice and read prayers to my adopted people, he counted it as great a defection as taking to saddle and spur.
Lazarre
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At the time of his arrest he had with him, an alb, a surplice or amice, a thread girdle, a vestment, a stole, a fannel, "a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Still wearing her blue scarf and surplice, she was standing only a few feet away, half hidden by one of the pillars.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices.
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In the vestry press we should find an alb of fine white linen, somewhat similar to a surplice, ornamented with "apparels,
English Villages
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So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
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Once I had stuffed myself behind the wheel with my surplice billowing around me like a collapsed parachute, I switched into passive mode.
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The Eucharistic vestments in the Church of England date back to late Roman antiquity - the surplice is an enlargement of the late Roman tunic for convenient use over warm undergarments in colder climates.
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Surplice sat down gracefully and lightly on one of our beds, taking extreme care not to strain the somewhat capricious mechanism thereof; sat very proudly; erect; modest but unfearful.
The Enormous Room
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On weekdays he wore a smock-frock, which he called his surplice, with wonderful fancy stitches on the breast and back and sleeves.
The Parish Clerk
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White T-shirts, white jeans, white ponchos, even white surplices stood out in the hot July sun.
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Stretching along each side are lines of choirboys and girls in bright surplices, holding flags and honey-scented tapers.
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I didn't know that was called a surplice bodice, but I've been looking for one pattern or ready to wear because I've always loved it.
Back in the Saddle - A Dress A Day
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But music was grating to the prejudiced ears of the Scottish; clergy; sculpture and painting appeared instruments of idolatry the surplice was a rag of Popery; and every motion or gesture prescribed by the liturgy, was a step towards that spiritual Babylon, so much the object of their horror and aversion.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
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One of the party made a notable discovery, that the surplice was a kind of garment used by the priests of
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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She wore a narrow gown of pearl silk, the "surplice" waist belted high, and sleeves distended at the top by means of feather cushions tied in the armholes.
My day : reminiscences of a long life,
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The habit of the Fontevrist nuns was a white tunic and surplice with a black girdle, a white guimp and black veil; the cowl was black.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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When we arrived at the churchyard, I donned my surplice and stole ready for the procession to the graveside.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley — Complete
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In another context a surplice is an ecclesiastical vestment.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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He became a canon of Salisbury in 1563, but objected to the use of the surplice and to contributing to the repairs of the cathedral.
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‘If they were presented in ruffs and surplices,’ Stainer contends, ‘it might alienate people.’
