It was deemed meritorious to disfigure the body by neglect and filth, to extenuate it by fasting and watchfulness, to lacerate it with stripes, and to fret the wounds with cilices of horsehair.
Source: wiktionary
Cilice
Synonyms for "cilice" (2 found)
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Translations
18 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- власеница noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Catalan
1 entries- cilici noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 粗衣 noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- 褐衣 noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Finnish
1 entries- jouhipaita noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
German
4 entries- Büsserhemd noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- Büßerhemd noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- Cilicium noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- härenes Hemd noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Ido
1 entries- cilico noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Macedonian
1 entries- власе́ница noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Polish
1 entries- włosienica noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Russian
2 entries- власяни́ца noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- вре́тище noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Ukrainian
3 entries- верета noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- власяни́ця noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
- волосяниця noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Welsh
1 entries- crys rhawn noun (garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.
Source: wiktionary
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