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Calceated
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- 1 Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders. not-comparable, uncommon
"Prior to our perambulation of the prairie, I invested my crural organs with good gambados or spatterdashes, and had my pedal extremities well calceated, as a propugnation against the mordacity of amphisbaenas."
- 1 simple past and past participle of calceate form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.
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