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chasuble

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Searchable Lemmata: casula (L), casubula (L), cassibula (L), chasuble (AF), chesible (ME), chesabil (OScots), chasuble (MdE).
Alternate Forms: chesepulus, chesiblis, schesypul, chaisuble, chasible, cheasible, cheisible, chesible, chessible, chisible, chesubel, chesuble, casuphe, chesiple.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Garment; sleeveless overgarment worn during the celebration of mass, the shape of which changed throughout the Middle Ages. In specific uses, an ecclesiastical vestment in the form of a wide cloak that slips over the wearer's head and remains open at the sides; worn over an alb and stole during the celebration of the Eucharist; in depictions of bishops worn over the dalmatic.(ante 1230 still in current use)
1. Chasubles, aubes e tunikes Biblical/Hagiographic. [AND S Gile (2255) circa 1160]
2. [71] ... quinque baudekinos cum auro et septem pannos de aresta ... [71a] ... assignavi ... domui Loci Dei ... magnam capellam suam, sc. unam cassibulam de rubro samito et unam capam chori de rubro samito ... j tuniculam, j dalmaticam ... j albam ... , j amictum j stolam, j fanonem cum twallis et omnes reliquias suas Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (71-71a) circa 1225]
3. [37] ... chasuble: infula: chasuble ... dalmatica gallice: dalmatic ... [38] ... ferulas: batuers et ferula est nomen, arcoreres talevas Gloss. [AND TLL (i 37-38) ante 1300]
4. [951] ... Þo seint thomas hadde is masse i-songue, his chesible [Hrl: cheisible] he gan of weue / [952] Alle is oþer uestimenz on him he let bi-leue Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic. [MED SLeg.Becket ((LdMisc 108) 951-2) circa 1300]
5. xxx cassibulas, xxx tuniculas ceperunt ... [b] ad abbaciam [de S. Edmundo] vi et armis, sc. lanceis, gisarmis, hachiis, gladiis, arcubus et sagittis, accesserunt Historic. [DMLBS MonA (III 109) 1327]
6. pro chesiblis et capis ... emendandis Accounts. [DMLBS Sacr. Ely (II 143) circa 1350]
7. [And e, loueli Ladies ... souwe ... ] Chesybles [vr. chesiples] for Chapeleyns and Churches [to honoure.] Poetic. quotes in initial and final brackets supplied from Langl P Pl A VIII 20 - DOE [MED PPl.A(1) ((Vrn) 7.20) ante 1400]
8. Qui Pridie, That is oysyd to be sayd, Quhen yhe se the chesybyll [C. chessabil] layde Historic. [DOST Wynt (v 1256 - DOST) circa 1420]
9. stole et chesible ové le corperas et une petite messale [AND Grocers (13) circa 1425]
10. The chesipule or planete callyde, that es a-bouen othyr vestimentes, be-tokenz charite, that es excellente a-boune othyr vertuys : Casula, que, in alio nomine planeta, aliis vestibus superponitur, [signat] caritatem que ceteras uirtutes excellit. Ecclesiastic/Regula. The Middle English is a direct translation from the Latin source, which has casula. [MED Spec.Chr.(1) (180,29-31)]
11. chesabylle ; casula, infula, planeta Gloss. [MED Cath.Angl. ((Monson 168) 62) circa 1483]
12. Item, paié a Sire William Hedyngdoun pur lez orfreys de une chesible de velvet en grayn embroydez, q’il ad donee ovesqe une missale aprés son decesse, ambedeux al oeps del mercerye – xxxiii s. iii d. Accounts. [trans., p. 209]: 'Item, paid to Sir William Hedyngton for the embroidered orphreys of a velvet chasuble dyed in grain, which he has bequeathed after his death with a missal, both of them for the use of the mercers’ mystery 33 s. 4.' [LexP Mercers' Accounts (I.208) 1407/1408]
c.f.: casule, ephod, vestment, infula
AF, L, ME, MdE.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: High    Rank: High    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Back, Chest.
1b(n.) Garment; specifially, deacon's vestment.(circa 1449)
1. [132] ... Item, I bequethe to the said chirch, ane hole sute of vestmytes [read: vestmyntes] of russet velvet ... One coope, chesible diacones, for decones; with the awbes and parures ... 1 chesible diacones, for decones, or frees of white clothe of gold powdred with garters ... [134] ... On vestment ... that ys of blak satyn ground, figured wyth rede velvet ... I bequethe ... myne executors to make for the same chalice ii small nets of sylver and over-gilt. Wills. [MED Will Brugco in Nichols Illust. (132-134) 1449]
c.f.: casule
ME, MdE.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Shoulder(s), Waist.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, From Old French chesible & Latin cassibula. The OED suggests, 'the current form, which has taken its place since 1700, corresponds to mod.F. chasuble (casuble 13th c. in Littré), and to the med.L. casubula (cassubula, casubla, etc.); these go back respectively to late L. types casipula, casupula ... ' ['chasuble', OED, 2nd ed. (1989)]. Cf. classical and medieval L casula (casule).
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References: Johnstone, P. (2002)
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