a. [f. prec. + -ED2.] Wearing or vested in a surplice.

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a. 1765.  Mallet, Funeral Hymn, ii. As the surplic’d train draw near To this last mansion of mankind.

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1835.  I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., vi. 262. The hundreds of surpliced idlers that swelled the episcopal pageant.

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1852.  Rock, Ch. Fathers, III. I. 371. Headed by coped and surpliced choristers.

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1871.  Echo, 6 Jan. In 180 [churches] the surplice is used in the pulpit, in 151 there are surpliced choirs.

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  b.  fig. Clothed in white.

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1845.  Kingsley, in Macm. Mag., No. 246. 520. Frozen fields that surpliced lie.

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