calceated

English

Etymology

From Latin calceatus, past participle of pelceare (“to shoe”), from catceus (“shoe”), from calx, calcis (“heel”).

Adjective

calceated (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.
    • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 23:
      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.
    • 1925, The Train Dispatcher - Volume 7, page 381:
      He should, however, also be calceated.
    • 1935, Ernest Oscar Thedinga, Secularization in Bavaria during the Napoleonic era, page 79:
      All Carmelites, both the barefoot and the calceated orders, were to be collected in the institutions at Straubing, while all the Augustinians were to be placed in the Augustinian monastery at Munich.


Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calceated in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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