Definitions for dalmatics

dalmatics dal·mat·ic

Spelling: [dal-mat-ik]
IPA: /dælˈmæt ɪk/

Dalmatics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in dalmatics (aacdilmst).

Definitions for dalmatics

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical. a vestment worn over the alb by the deacon, as at the celebration of the Mass, and worn by bishops on some occasions, as at a coronation.
  2. a similar vestment worn by a sovereign of England at his or her coronation.

Origin of dalmatics

1400-50; late Middle English Anglo-French dalmatike Late Latin Dalmatica (vestis) Dalmatian (garment). See Dalmatia, -ic

Examples for dalmatics

This dalmatic must be ranked first and highest among ecclesiastical embroideries.

There has been much controversy as to the date of the dalmatic of Charlemagne in the Vatican treasury.

Two half-length saints are on the dalmatic beneath a double arch.

The dalmatic has been much restored, but, I believe, most carefully kept to the old lines.

The Saint is robed in the alb, dalmatic with two stripes, chasuble and pall as being Archbishop of Alexandria.

Virgil has celebrated him as a poet, and a commander of armies, in the Illyrican and dalmatic wars.

On such occasions, the emperor was admitted for that time into the sanctuary, wore a deacon's dalmatic, and chanted a gospel.

In England at the Reformation the dalmatic ultimately shared the fate of the chasuble and other mass vestments.

One morning, when Hubert was arranging a dalmatic, a ring at the door-bell obliged him to go downstairs.

The sub-deacons tunicle was like the dalmatic, but rather shorter, and less ornamented.

Word Value for dalmatics
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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