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cingle

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Searchable Lemmata: cingulum (L), sengle (ME), cengle (AF), cengal (Ir), cingle (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cindulo, cingula, cingulo, cingulorum, cingulum, cingulus, ingulis, sengul, singell..

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

NOTE(n.) ; the Latin term cingulum (-a, -us) came to designate a number of items used for girding, girdling, surrounding or encompassing, including items of clothing and accessories such as belts, girdles or straps, as well as other various senses: ecliptic (astrology); a curtain wall; etc.(ante 700)
AF, Ir, L, ME, MdE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1a(n.) Accessory; girdle or belt; anything that cinches or binds; in Latin contexts: an ecclesiastical girdle or belt as part of a set of vestments.(circa 1000)
1. Cinctus est lata zona, et minus lata semicinctium, et utrisque minima cingulum; nam a cinctu per diminutionem cingulum nominatum. Cinctu autem iuvenes in exercitatione campestri verecunda velabant; unde et campestris dicebatur. Isidore describes specific types of garments that bind in Isid. Etym. 19,30, including balteus, bracile, caltulus, cinctus, facia, fasciola, fibula, limbus, limus, redimiculum, strophium, subcinctorium, subligaculum, vitta, zona. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,33,1)]
2. Abanet cingulum sacerdotale rotundum, polymita arte ex cocco, purpura, iacinthoque contextum, ita ut flores atque gemmae in eo esse viderentur distinctae. Based upon the Isidore citation above. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,21,2)]
3. Abanet .i. cingulum sacerdotale. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (0015 (A15))]
4. cingulum oððe zona oððe cinctorium gyrdel. Gloss. [DOE ÆGl (0878 (314.13))]
5. exaudi propitius orationem nostram et hanc planetam famuli tui ill. Seu pudorem albam ac stolam cingulum orariumque dextera tua sancta benedicere sanctificare consecrareque et purificare digneris. Quatenus haec uestimenta ministris et leuitis ac sacerdotibus tuis ad diuinum cultum ornandum et explendum proficiant.Found in the blessing of vestments during the ordination of a priest or deacon. [LexP Egbert Pont. (Banting) (23) circa 950/1000]
6. annectens alteram summitatem ejus [casulae] cingulo albae Ecclesiastic/Regula. (as part of ecclesiastic vestments) [DMLBS RegulC (34) circa 970]
7. instrumenta ecclesiastica sunt hec: lavacrum ... crucifixum et alie ... ymagines ... feretrum, manutergium, facitergium ... vestes sacerdotis sint ibi, casula, superpellicium et *caphicesium [v.l. *capitestium] ... cingulum, sive tropheum, sive zona, sive balteum ... examitam vel *amicum Gloss. (as part of ecclesiastic vestments) [DMLBS NECKAM (Ut. 119) ante 1217]
8. Henrico ... faciant habere j capam cum *cindulo de eodem panno de quo nuper ... fecerunt habere eidem robam ad corpus suum Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (58) 1257]
9. E si le travail grief e grant seit, Sun ventre d’un cengle constreindre deit [AND Secr1 (1905) circa 1270]
c.f.: belt, cincture
AF, Ir, L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts:
1b(n.) Accessory; specifically, a belt as an emblem of military service or knighthood (in certain Latin texts).(ante 700 - 1346)
1. cum Julianus ... in clericali gradu constitutos ... ad militiae cingulum cogeret [DMLBS ALDH. (VirgP 38b) ante 709]
2. citra religionem sacramenti ex antiqua lege nemo militie cingulo donabatur Other. [DMLBS J. SAL. (Pol. 599B) 1159]
3. princeps ... multos ... milicie cingulo insignivit (Lit. Canc. S. Pauli) Historic. [DMLBS AD. MUR. (201) 1346]
L.
Sex: Male    Use: Military    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.
1c(n.) Accessory; specifically, a supporting strap or band: girth or surcingle; the girth-web of a bed.(ante 1210 - ante 1486)
1. pro tribus cingulis ad lectum regis, iij d. Accounts. (girth-web of a bed) [DMLBS Misae (171) 1210]
2. villus: floket ... carentivillo: canevel ... cingulam: cengle Gloss. (surcingle, girth of a harness; citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND TLL (ii 86) ante 1300]
3. in raparacione sellarum et singulorum del baghors et del fischenhors Accounts. (surcingle, girth of a harness) [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (11) 1316]
4. [34/19] ... Super officio garderobe ... pro j pare sengles corei de Hungaria cum plustula pro trussura predictorum arcuum, xviij d. ... [35/15] ... Pro ix vlnis Westnall [read: Westuall] ad vij d. emptis pro trussura dictorum pannorum, v s. iij d. Accounts. (girth-web of a bed) [MED Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52 (34/19-35/15) 1391]
5. Abilment for the Justus of the Pees ... A Sadyll well stuffud and a peyre of jambus ... A vambrase and a gaynpayne & ij brickettes ... iij dowbyll Gyrthis with dowbill bokollus, and a dowbill sengull [vr. singull] with dowbill bokullus Legal. (surcingle, girth of a harness; citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Jousts of Peace ((Mrg M 775) 40) ante 1486]
AF, L, ME, MdE; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Garment; some kind of cloak?(circa 1439)
1. Whan he gan awey the mantel pulle, Than riht anon this tiraunt ... Gaff hym another sengle maad of wolle Heroic, Poetic. If not the present word, possibly a nominal instance of single (q.v.)? [MED Lydg.FP ((Bod 263) 4.871) ante 1439]
ME; Primarily Poetic.
Sex: Male    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French cengle, sengle (AF cengle) and Classical Latin cingulum, British Latin singulum.
WF:
Etym Cog: cengle (OF).
References:
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