Middle English Dictionary Entry
scapulārī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scapulārī(e n. Also scapelari(e, -lori, -ler(e)i & scaplori, skaplorie, scaplurie & chapeleri & kapelari; pl. scapeloris, -liries. |
| Etymology | OE scapularie & ML scapulārium, scapelārium, scapelerium, capulārium, AL scapelōrium; also cp. OF chapulaire, capilaire & eschapulaire, eschapeloire. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A sleeveless garment usu. worn by religious, scapular; ?also, a body belt.
Associated quotations
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6)312/6 fn. : Inwið þe wanes ha muhe werie scapeloris hwan Mantel ham heuegeð.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)287/330 : Al bi-neoþe sat a frere in is scapelori ȝwijt, his hod i-drawe ouer is eiȝen.
- c1390 GGuy(2) (Vrn)295 : He honged hit priueliche be-foren his brest vnder his scapeleri.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.69 : Thou axist me..of my grete hood, what that it meneth, my scapelarie and my wide cope and the knottide girdil.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)442 : Scaplory [Win: Scapelary]: Scapulare.
- (1440) Visit.Alnwick186a : In tyme of your labour ye vse scapelyryes as ye are bounde by your rule.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Christina Mirab.(Dc 114)126/9 : Hir cloþes was a white coote and a white scaplury, alle hir body to þe feet.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)56/12 : He..did on hym a hayr & a scapularie þat lay by hym.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)341/19 : A monk..doffid his cowle & did on his skaplorie.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)121/28 : The first nyte sche was þere, at instauns of hir frendes, þe chanones put up-on hir þe scapulary of Seynt Gilbert.
- (a1474) Paston2.363 : Item, a scapelerey with an hodde.
- a1475 Friar & B.(Brog 2.1)p.56 : The bramblys chrachyd hym in the face..And rent hys clothys by and by, Hys kyrtyll and hys kapelary [vr. chapelery].
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)108a : A Scapelory: Armillaucia, Armillaus, Scapularium, Scapular.
- ?1536(1402) Jack Upland (Gough)192/50 : What betokeneth youre greate hoode, your scaplerye, youre knotted girdel, and youre wyde coape?
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)550 : Þei schapen her chapolories & streccheþ hem brode.