The chasuble, or outer vestment the priest wears, represents the purple garment with which Christ was clothed as a mock king.
The first vestment the priest puts on over the cassock is called an amice.
Thus we see that eachvestment and color used has a special significance.
From underneath that vestment forth he drew Two keys of metal twain: the one was gold, Its fellow silver.
So high a price was paid for this ecclesiastical vestment not because it was an antique but because marvelous expertness in artcraft had given it such value.
A loose sleeveless vestmentfalling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.
Defn: A short, close-fitting vestmentworn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.
Defn: A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court.
This vestment is not derived from the Roman rite, but is properly a stole, which the subdeacons used to carry in the left hand.
He traces the vestment ultimately to a white linen cloth of ceremony (pallium linostinum) worn in the 4th century by the Roman clergy over the left arm, and peculiar at that time to them.
Roman name for the vestmentuntil the time of Innocent III.
A linen vestment longer than the surplice, and with tight sleeves.
It is embroidered with a Y-Cross behind, and is considered the principal vestment of the priest.
But in the "advertisements" of Archbishop Parker (1566), no other vestment than the Cope and Surplice is named.
A vestment of linen, shorter than the surplice, and not quite so full.
Again bells do signify preachers, who ought after the likeness of a bell to exhort the faithful unto faith: the which was typified in that the LORD commanded Moses to make a vestment for the High Priest who entered into the Holy of Holies.
It is an adaptation of the inner eucharistic vestment to the exigencies of the ordinary Office.
Item, one vestment of blewe velvett with a cope to the same.
Item, one vestment of whyte braunchyd damaske with a cope to the same.
Item, one other olde vestment with a cope to the same.
Over all he places the chasuble, or large vestment with the cross on the back.
Around his neck he places the stole, a long, narrow vestment with a cross on each end.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp.
That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.
Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in the seventh month, in the year one hundred and threescore, at the feast day of the tabernacles: and he gathered together an army, and made a great number of arms.
Beneath her tattered vestment the lines of a remarkably graceful little body could be discerned.
The vestment presented was the gown and hood of a novice.
It was formerly naked, but they have contrived to execute in coloured marble a vestment to cover her loins and veil her secret beauties.
How often did their swords strike upon the floor behind them, and even fasten in the vestment of the strange abbot, who, with closed eyes and head bowed down upon his breast, had no knowledge of their presence!
With regard to the vestmentof Our Blessed Lady, to which allusion has so frequently been made, and which appears to be of indisputable authenticity, we will give the remainder of its history up to the present time.
As to one detail, however, everybody was mistaken, the vestment not being by any means of the form supposed.
The saccos, formerly the principal vestment of the patriarchs and an emblem of sovereign power, is now common to all Russian bishops.
They are also thickly sown with rows of seed-pearls which follow the lines and edgings of the vestment and border the sacred images.
This is what monks and friars do now; they put the vestmentover the habit.
Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow.
After which the slaves led me to the bath, where I washed, and was perfumed, and arrayed in a vestmentof my lord's.
It was the custom for a guild or religious body to bestow some rich church vestment upon an ecclesiastical advocate who had befriended it by his pleadings before the tribunal, and thus to convey their thanks to him with his fee.
This mode lasted some time; for in 1538, Barbara Mason bequeathed to a church a "vestment of green silk beaten with gold.
At his death the pope bequeathed this vestment to the cathedral of his native town.
As at the left side, so here, quite outside the sacred history on the cope, we have the figure of an individual probably living at the time the vestment was wrought.
Chasuble, the outermost sacrificial vestment of a bishop or priest.
Cope, the outermost ceremonial and processionalvestment of a bishop or priest.
