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AMICE (earlier forms: amyl, amyl, O. Fr. amit, See also:Lat. amictus,
from amicire, to throw or wrap See also:round, the See also:change of t to s being
probably due to an See also:early confusion with the aumuce: see
ALMLCE), a liturgical vestment of the Western See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. It is a
rectangular piece of See also:cloth which is wrapped round the See also:neck,
shoulders and See also:breast. Sometimes, more particularly in See also:Germany,
it is called the humerale (from humerus, See also:shoulder). According to
See also:modern See also:Roman use, laid down by the See also:decree of the See also:Congregation
of See also:Rites in 1819, the amice must be of See also:linen or of a hempen
material, not See also:wool; and, as directed by the new Roman See also:Missal
(1570), a small See also:cross must be sewn or embroidered in the See also:middle
of it. In putting it on it is first laid on the See also:head, then allowed to
fall on the shoulders, and finally folded round the See also:chest and tied
with the strings attached for that purpose (see fig. I). The amice
is now worn under
the See also:alb, except at
See also:Milan and See also:Lyons,
where it is put on
over it. The vest-
ment was at first a
perfectly See also:plain See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white
cloth, but in the 12th
See also:century the See also:custom
arose of decorating
the upper border
with a See also:band of See also:embroidery, the parure (parura) or " See also:apparel."
This was abandoned at See also:Rome about the end of the 15th
century and is not prescribed in the Missal; it survived,
however, in many parts of See also:Europe till much later. This apparel,
when the vestment has been adjusted, forms a sort of stiff See also:collar
which appears above the See also:chasuble or See also:dalmatic (see fig. 2). In
Redrawn from Braun, Liturgiuhe Gewandung.
some exceptional cases, as at Milan, it has become detached from the amice and is fixed like a collar to the chasuble.
The Latin word amictus was applied to any wrap-like garment, and, according to See also:Father Braun, the liturgical amice originated in the See also:ordinary neck-cloth worn by all classes of See also:Romans. It had at the outset no liturgical significance whatever, and was simply adopted by the See also:clergy for the same See also:reason that the clergy of the 18th century wore wigs—because it was See also:part of the full See also:dress of ordinary See also:life. The first See also:record of its ecclesiastical use is at Rome in the 8th century, when it was worn only with the dalmatic and was known as the anabolagium (anagolaium, anagolagium, from Gr. 1wa(3bXatov), a name it continued to See also:bear at Rome till the 13th century. In the 9th century it spread to the other countries that adopted the Roman use: it is mentioned in an See also:inventory of See also:vestments given by See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot See also:Angilbert (d. 814) to the
See also:AMICIS
monastery at Centula (St Riguier) and in the de clericorum ins stutione of Hrabanus Maurus (c. 82o). The amice was worn firms. simply as a shoulder-loth, but at the end of the 9th century the custom See also:grew up of putting it on over the head and of wearing It as a See also:hood, either while the other vestments were being put on or. according to the various uses of See also:local churches, during part of the See also:Mass, though never during the See also:canon. This ceased at Rome at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as the apparel disappeared; but two See also:relics of it survive—(t) in the directions of the Missal for putting on the amice, (2) in the ordination of subdeacons, when the See also:bishop See also:lays the vestment on the ordinand's head with the words, " Take the amice, which symbolizes discipline over the See also:tongue, &c." The See also:priest too in putting it on prays, " See also:Place on my head the See also:helmet of salvation, &c."
The amice, whatever its origin or symbolism, became specific-ally a vestment associated with the See also:sacrifice of the Mass, and as such it was rejected with the other " Mass vestments " in See also:England at the See also:Reformation. Its use has, however, been revived in many See also:Anglican churches, the favourite See also:form being the See also:medieval apparelled amice. (See VESTMENTS.) A vestment akin to the amice is also worn in the Armenian and some other See also:oriental churches, but it is unknown to the Orthodox Eastern Church.
Akin to the amice is a vestment pee'uliar to the popes, the fanone (Med. Lat. See also:lane, " cloth," Goth. fana, " cloth," Mod. Ger. Fahne, " a See also:flag "),
also called the orale (from ora, an edge, border). This is at See also:present a circular broad collar of two thicknesses of See also:silk, ornamented with See also:gold stripes and a gold-embroidered cross (see fig. 3). It is put on after the alb, &c., and under the See also:tunicle, dalmatic and chasuble, but then See also:drawn up so as to fall over the latter like a collar. The fanone was originally a cloth like the amice and was
wrapped round neck and From Braun, LiturgischeGewandung. shoulders; until the 15th FIG. 3.—The Papal Fanone. century, moreover, it was
not worn with the amice. Since then, however, both vestments have been worn, one under, the other over, the alb. It is worn by the popes only on certain See also:special days or occasions, and forms part of the vestments in which they are buried.
See See also:Joseph Braun, S. J., See also:Die liturgische Gewandung, pp. 21-56 (See also:Freiburg See also:im See also:Breisgau, 1907), and bibliography to the See also:article VESTMENTS.
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