stoled, ppl. a.
(stəʊld)
[f. stole n.1 (? and v.1) + -ed.]
Wearing a stole (in various senses of the n.)
In the first quot. apparently misused for ‘surpliced’.
| 1546–7 Test. Ebor. VI. 254 To every clerke iiij d. and every childe, being stolde, ij d. 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Tri. ii. xvii, After them flewe the Prophets, brightly stol'd In shining lawne. 1629 Milton Hymn Nativ. xxiv, In vain..The sable-stoled Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark. 1787 Polwhele Engl. Orator ii. 90 Where..amid the stoled Tribe Persuasion's swift-descending Genius swells The Oration's Period. 1808 Scott Marm. vi. Introd., That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. 1839 Mrs. Browning Sabbath Morn. at Sea xii, Though this sabbath comes to me Without the stolèd minister, Or chanting congregation. 1842 Tennyson Morte d' Arthur 197 All the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream. 1865 Neale Hymns Paradise 43 The purple stoled Confessors. 1873 R. Wilton Wood Notes 33 At the Lord's Table, waiting, robed and stoled Till all had knelt around, I saw a sign. |