Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

surpliced

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sur-pliced
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing a surplice.

Example Sentences

"Surpliced Sirs farewell, / I can tell, my name full well."
"At Westminster the surplic’d dean / The sad but honourable scene / Prepares."
"Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer."
"After Mass one sunrise the canoes entered the troughs / of the surpliced shallows,"

Etymology

From surplice + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: surplice

Derived Forms

unsurpliced

Questions

What does surpliced mean?: Wearing a surplice.
Where does surpliced come from?: From surplice + -ed.

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