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am·ice

(ăm′ĭs)

A liturgical vestment consisting of an oblong piece of white linen worn around the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.

[Middle English, probably from Old French amis, pl. of amit, from Latin amictus, mantle, from past participle of amicīre, to wrap around : am-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

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amice

(ˈæmɪs)

(Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity a rectangular piece of white linen worn by priests around the neck and shoulders under the alb or, formerly, on the head

[C15: from Old French amis, plural of amit, or from Medieval Latin amicia, both from Latin amictus cloak, from amicīre to clothe, from am- ambi- + iacere to throw]

amice

(ˈæmɪs)

(Ecclesiastical Terms) another word for almuce

AMICE

abbreviation for

(Civil Engineering) Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers

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am•ice

(ˈæm ɪs)

n.

an oblong ecclesiastical vestment of white cloth, worn at the neck and shoulders.

[1200–50; < Old French amis,amys, pl. of amit < Latin amictus way of dressing, mantle, cloak <amic(īre) to clothe (am- ambi- + -icīre, comb. form of iacere to throw)]

Translations

amito

amitto

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Who but would cast his pomp away, To take my staff and amice grey, And to the world's tumultuous stage, Prefer the peaceful Hermitage?

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Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey, Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds, And griesly spectres, which the Fiend had raised To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.

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Sashes and birettas, chains and large crosses, amices and maniples, special gloves and shoes have reappeared.

What's the message on the runway for Baroque fashions?

(19) Wright, The Maze and the Warrior, 140; Mead, "Ceremonial Game Playing," 99-100, gently mocks the interpretation offered by Lebeuf that "the dean would catch hold of one of the canons by the hand and begin a dance, which was followed by the dancing of the other canons in a circle or in another mode, and of the ball being passed by the president to the players, and them passing it back to the president." Mead writes that Lebeuf "proceeds to draw a comic picture of the grave church dignitaries breathlessly waltzing, with their violet cassocks tucked up to their waists and the ends of their amices fluttering in violent agitation behind them.

Having received the pilota [a leather ball] from the newest canon, the dean, or someone in his place, in former times wearing an amice on his head and the other clergy likewise, began antiphonally the sequence appropriate for the feast of Easter, Victimae paschali laudes.

Liturgists and dance in the twelfth century: the witness of John Beleth and Sicard of Cremona

The mandorla, or sunburst, is supported by six angels, wearing girdled albs, gathered at hip level, and amices, with carved looped clouds or stars at their feet.

(53) There the angels also wear star-shaped amices, and their hair is full and wavy, as at Sandford.

A forgotten Assumption of the Virgin: the reredos at St Andrew, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

We altar boys wore surplices over our cassocks, not amices. Thanks for the tender memories, Doyle.

Finally, Doyle recounts how "by then my amice and cassock were hanging in my locker." Cassock?

Disrespectful altar boy. (Letters)

After she has worked with her spindles, she dons an apron "comme les presbtres mettent leur amict quand ils voulent messe chanter" ("as priests put up their amice when they want to sing mass") (388; Frame 306).