Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of encircling or encompassing.
- n. Something that encircles or surrounds.
- n. A belt or sash, especially one worn with an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a monk or nun.
- v. To gird; encompass.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A belt, girdle, or band worn round the body or round a part of it.
- n. Specifically The girdle used to confine a clergyman's cassock, usually of the color of the cassock and made of silk or serge.
- n. Hence Something resembling a belt or girdle.
- n. That which encompasses or incloses; inclosure; barrier; circuit; fence.
- n. In architecture, a raised ring or a list around a column.
Wiktionary
- n. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
- n. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
- v. To girdle, circle or surround
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
- n. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
- n. The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
Etymologies
- Latin cīnctūra, from cīnctus, past participle of cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Essendon Bombers, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have regularly had a red cincture from a left shoulder to a right hip upon their black tops as good as striped socks.”
“Richmond Tigers, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have been good well good well good well known for their black unvaried with a yellow cincture from a left shoulder to a right hip.”
“Some kind of cincture, we may further note, is included in almost every form of religious or ecclesiastical costume.”
“The Passions are sung by three deacons, dressed in amice, alb, cincture, maniple and diaconal stole; they are not the major ministers of the Mass itself.”
“They could do a white strife unvaried with a yellow cincture couldnt they?”
“Their strife unvaried looks similar, usually with a wider cincture as a diagonal line.”
“In addition to the amice, alb, cincture and stole, the priest wears a black chasuble; the deacon wears a black stole, and, like the subdeacon, a black folded chasuble, the sacred vestments of penitential Masses.”
“At the beginning of the rite, the three major ministers wear amice, alb, and cincture; the priest and deacon also wear black stoles, but none of the three wears either a chasuble of any sort, nor a dalmatic or tunicle.”
“Her ivory skirt a riot of blossoms, her cincture the snow's enemy, she bent to my ear and whispered, "Tesoro, guide me to dance.”
“They might even restore the cincture and chasuble when concelebrating!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cincture’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Ecclesiastical Vestments
Names of articles of clothing and paraphernalia worn by or pertaining to the clergy in former and modern times. Trappings, uniforms, call them what you will. Because the term dog collar, once-remov...
mitra pretiosa, auriferata, chasuble, phelonion, plicata, garment, amphibalus, amphibalum, casula planeta, casula, tunicle, maniple and 106 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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mariacristina's list
random words I find while reading.
brightshade In many churches, the cincture is a rope belt (often white) tied about the waist over an alb. I was going to say "not flat" but some cassocks use a flat cincture.
In a number of monastic orders (such as the Society of Saint John the Evangelist), there are knots tied at the end of the cincture -- the number of knots indicates the 'rank' of the monk or novice. Jun 7, 2009
bilby
For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and buoyant air,
Cinctured by bright winds,
Treading the sunlight.
And the waves which precede you
Ripple and stir
The sands at your feet.
- Amy Lowell, 'Venus Transiens'. Oct 4, 2008
mariacristina girding, encompassing."...cincture of his headband.." Drop City, TC Boyle. Mar 3, 2008