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noun
Scapulary, Scapular  n.  
1.
(R. C. Ch.)
(a)
A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.
(b)
The name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion.
2.
(Surg.) A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.



Scapulary  n.  (Zool.) Same as 2d and 3d Scapular.



adjective
Scapulary  adj.  Same as Scapular, a.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scapulary" Quotes from Famous Books



... punished the offenders, with the perpetual dishonor of their family. Of not a few they confiscated the goods, and condemned them to imprisonment for life. On most of them they put a sambenito, which is a sort of scapulary of yellow color, with a red St. Andrew's cross, that they might go marked among their neighbors, and bear a signal that should affright and scare by the greatness of the punishment and of the disgrace; a plan which experience ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

... mitigated when we learned from the landlord's sister a few hours later that the guests were only returning from Scapulary Sunday in Reischach. Most of them belonged to the next village, and had rested here on their way. After prayers it was right to sing and dance: why should they not? And, look you, when wine got into people's head, what could she do? She ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various

... black leathern girdle. Whenever he put these on or off a Latin prayer was repeated to him aloud, that the Lord might put off the old and put on the new man, fashioned according to God. Above the cowl he received a scapulary, as it was called—in other words, a narrow strip of cloth hanging over shoulders, breast, and back, and reaching down to his feet. This was meant to signify that he took upon him the yoke of Him who said, 'My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.' At the same ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... trunk of the living body, I see reason to doubt whether the practitioner can by any boasted delicacy of manipulation, detect an abnormal state of the pulmonary organs by percussion, or the use of the stethoscope, applied at those regions which he terms coracoid, scapulary, subclavian, &c., if the line of his examination be directed from before backwards. The scapula, covered by thick carneous masses, does not lie in the living body directly upon the osseous-thorax, neither ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... of their confraternity, and he many a time had other little offices of the same kind, upon which he much valued himself. This betided him for that, being a man of substance, he gave many a good pittance to the clergy, who, getting of him often, this a pair of hose, that a gown and another a scapulary, taught him in return store of goodly orisons and gave him the paternoster in the vulgar tongue, the Song of Saint Alexis, the Lamentations of Saint Bernard, the Canticles of Madam Matilda and the like trumpery, all which he held very dear and kept very diligently ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio


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