surpliced

English

Etymology

surplice +‎ -ed

Adjective

surpliced (not comparable)

1. Wearing a surplice.
   • c. 1589, anonymous author, O read me for I am of great antiquitie‎^[1]:

     Surpliced Sirs farewell, / I can tell, my name full well.

   • 1757, Richard Owen, “To Mr. Whitehead, On his being made Poet Laureat”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes‎^[2], volume 6, London: J. Dodsley, page 338:

     At Westminster the surplic’d dean / The sad but honourable scene / Prepares.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1990, Derek Walcott, chapter 1, in Omeros‎^[3], New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 8:

     After Mass one sunrise the canoes entered the troughs / of the surpliced shallows,