Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Barefoot or wearing sandals. Used of certain religious orders.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without shoes; unshod; barefooted: specifically applied to a branch of the Carmelite monks known as Discalceati (the barefooted).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective shoeless; barefoot; without shoes on; wearing sandals rather than shoes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin discalceātus : dis-, dis- + calceātus, shod (from calceus, shoe, from calx, calc-, heel).]

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  • Those poor Carmelites. Didn't someone write an opera about their conversations for the ages?

    April 30, 2008

  • When you walk in a garden you don't need shoes. You are well heeled (healed)

    April 30, 2008

  • Handel composed Carmelite Vespers in 1707. I remember other bits of Handel that mentioned the Carmelites, maybe in the Dixit Dominus stuff?

    April 30, 2008

  • Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites.

    April 30, 2008

  • And here I thought they just needed calcium supplements.

    April 30, 2008