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noun
Maundy  n.  
1.
The sacrament of the Lord's Supper. (Obs.)
2.
The ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday.
3.
The alms distributed in connection with this ceremony or on Maundy Thursday. Note: In England, the foot washing is obsolete, but the "royal maundy" is distributed annually on behalf of the sovereign. Since 1890 this distribution has been made from Westminster Abbey.





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"Maundy" Quotes from Famous Books



... he do endeavour to make others do theirs, nothing will be done. The consideration here do make me go away very sad, and so home by coach, and there took up my wife and Mercer, who had been to-day at White Hall to the Maundy, ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... On Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the Psalms of the Feria are to be said. But the Canticle of Moses (Deut, 33) is not said on ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley


Words linked to "Maundy" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, ceremony, ceremonial, Maundy Thursday, observance, U.K., Maundy money, ceremonial occasion


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