Meanings
- not comparableuncommonSynonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
He should, however, also be calceated.
1925, The Train Dispatcher - Volume 7, page 3812 more examples
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.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 23All 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.
1935, Ernest Oscar Thedinga, Secularization in Bavaria during the Napoleonic era, page 79Synonyms: shod
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of calceate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
Origin
- Latincalceātus
- Englishcalceated
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.
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