Definitions for amices

amices am·ice

Spelling: [am-is]
IPA: /ˈæm ɪs/

Amices is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in amices (aceims).

Definitions for amices

noun

  1. an oblong vestment, usually of white linen, worn about the neck and shoulders and partly under the alb.
  2. almuce.

Origin of amices

1200-50; Middle English amice(s) Old French amis, amys, plural of amit Latin amictus mantle, cloak, equivalent to amic-, base of amicīre to wrap around (am- ambi- + -

Examples for amices

Others brought a cope of the colour of the day, with an amice, stole, and maniple.

On some he put their stole, on others their amice, on the deacons the alb.

It is also said that Geoffrey took his name from his frequent pilgrimages to Rome, in which he wore the gray "palmer's amice."

The amice, L. amictus, is the oblong piece of linen which envelops the neck of a vested priest.

The first vestment the priest puts on over the cassock is called an amice.

The apparel of the amice cannot be too rich in its ornamentation.

Is this the amice of the friar you saw issue from the copse?

As for the amice and the albe, they retain the very names they bore in Numa's day.

After amice's death her son used the title and claimed the estates of that earldom.

But no one had seen the child that morning, and amice declared he was not in the house.

Word Value for amices
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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