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facitergium

, facies + tergium.
Searchable Lemmata: facitergium (L).
Alternate Forms: facidtergia, facietergium, facitergia, facitergio, fascitergia.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; cloth or towel for wiping the face, in ecclesiastical context; often associated with the manutergium.(ante 700 - ante 1450)
1. Ad nos quoque facietergium dependentibus villis intextum, quod sanctus super caput in die obitus sui habuit, est perlatum; quod nos tamquam munus caeleste suscepimus.Defining, continental attestation. [LexP Gregorius BisTuronensis Opera (Krusch) (SS rer. Merov. 1, 2, c. 8, (p. 698), p. 248, lin. 13)]
2. Sabanum Graecum est. Facietergium et manitergium a tergendo faciem vel manus vocatum. Vela dicta quod obiectu suo interiora domorum velent. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,26,7)]
3. parvulum munusculum sanctitati vestrae direxi sabanum unum et facitergium et modica thymiama[var. BONIF. Ep. (Boniface, Epistolae)] [DMLBS Ep. Bonif. (90) 751]
4. Palla i faciterd[g]ium et dicitur a palmis. [DOE AntGl 7 (Kindschi) (029700 (297))]
5. hoc facitergium, i. togilla Gloss. Fl. 1150-75. (cf. ib. 239: facitergium, togilla, mappa, mappula, gausape, orarium, manutergium, brandeum, manumundum, manupiarium) [DMLBS OSB. GLOUC. (Deriv. 204) circa 1150/1175]
6. 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. (Ob. 1217) [DMLBS NECKAM (Ut. 119) ante 1217]
7. ave, virgo, que paventi / pax es et fons sitienti, / flenti facitergiumFl. 1265 [DMLBS WALT. WIMB. (Virgo 125)]
8. In perticis autem appendebant thor(i)alia, mantilia, mape, gausape, manutergia, fascite[r]gia. [AND TLL (1,175,8-10) ante 1300]
9. mappa : napis / mantilia : tualis, napis / gausape : un nap / manutergia : tualis / facitergia : keverchis. [AND TLL (2,60,13-14)]
10. facitergium: tuaile a face, kevertur ... birris, gerouns, anglice scurtez, geruns, giruns ... vulpecula: gupil Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 66-67) ante 1300]
11. de xj s. vj d de iij mappis mensalibus cum iij manitergiis, j facitergio, et j mappa poculari, cum vij manitergiis vocatis bruweriis venditis(Ac.) [DMLBS Antiq. J. (II 340) 1408]
c.f.: faciale, coverchief, sudary
L; Body Part.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Late Latin (c.200 - c.600 AD), compound of facies 'face' + tergium 'cloth, item for wiping' (< tergere 'to wipe' etc.). Some forms show conflation with fasica 'band, strip, covering'.
WF: Compound
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