surpliced

English

Etymology

surplice +‎ -ed

Adjective

surpliced (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a surplice.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.
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