infula
Americannoun
plural
infulaeEtymology
Origin of infula
1600–10; < Medieval Latin, Latin: band, priest's headband
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A clerical rhymer of the thirteenth century describes the prelates of the day— “Episcopi cornuti conticuere muti; ad pr�dam sunt parati et indecenter coronati, pro virga ferunt lanceam pro infula galeam. “sicut fortes incedunt et a Deo discedunt. ut leones feroces et ut aquil� veloces, ut apri frendentes exacuere dentes.”
From Project Gutenberg
Infula, in′fū-la, n. a white-and-red fillet or band of woollen stuff, worn upon the forehead, as a sign of religious consecration and of inviolability: a lappet in a mitre:—pl.
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Or, when adorned with the infula and crosier, in all thy conventual dignity, did his image never wake within thee a longing desire to return into the world?
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As an ecclesiastical vestment the cap can be traced, under the name of pileus, to the 12th century; under that of infula, to the end of the 10th.
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P. conico-campan. fuscous; g. free, obovate, rosy; s. slender, glabrous, colour of p. hirsute below; sp. rough, 7-9. infula, Fr.
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