▪ I. scapulary, n.
(ˈskæpjʊlərɪ)
Forms: 3 scapelori, 4 scapelry, chapolory, 5 scapelerey, scaplerie, -erye, -or(e)y, scapelarie, -ory, (kapelary), skaplorie, 5, 7 scapelary, scapularie, 6 skapellarye, 5– scapulary.
[ad. med.L. scapulārium, a var. of scapulāre scapular n. (the pl. scapulāria being common to the two sing. forms). Cf. F. scapulaire, Sp., Pg. escapulario. The confusion of the ending with L. -ōrium, -ory, appears in the AF. eschapeloyre (J. de Garlandia, 12th c.), whence app. the 14th c. form chapolory.
The 15th c. form kapelary, if not a mere scribal error, may be compared with med.L. capulāre, capulārium, OF. capillaire, which seem to be etymologizing alterations of scapulārium (as if derived from caput head).]
1. Eccl. a. = scapular n. 1.
| [a 1030 Rule St. Benet lv. (E.E.T.S.) 91 Culam on wintre þicce on sumere þinne oððe ealdnesse & scapularian for weorcum.] a 1225 Ancr. R. (Cleop.) 424 Inwið þe wanes ha muhe werie scapeloris hwen mantel ham heuegeð. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 287/330 Al bi-neoþe sat a frere in is scapelori ȝwijt, his hod i-drawe ouer is eiȝen. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxi. (Eugenia) 672 With þat scho kest þe cule away & scapelry but delay. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 550 Þei schapen her chapolories & streccheþ hem brode. 1402 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 69 Thou axist me, Jacke, of my grete hood, what that it meneth, my scapelarie and my wide cope, and the knottide girdil. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 341 He doffid his cowle & did on his skaplorie, and so he dyed. c 1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. III. 410 Item, a scapelerey with an hodde. c 1485 Frere & Boy in E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 56 The bramblys..rent hys [the friar's] kyrtyll and his kapelary, And all hys other wede. 1552 Lyndesay Monarche 5858 Gyf ȝe tuk the Skapellarye, That ȝe mycht leif more plesandlye. 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2282 The Commissary of the Inquisition..put on him the Habit of Penance, which is a Yellow Scapulary with a Red Cross, before and behind. 1875 W. M{supc}Ilwraith Guide Wigtownshire 87 They [sc. Cistercian monks] wore white robes with black scapularies. |
b. = scapular n. 1 b.
| 1674 Brevint Saul & Sam. xiii. 277 The Badg it [sc. this Confraternity] gives which is call'd the Holy Scapulary, is made of two small Pieces of woollen Stuff [etc.]. 1699 Burnet 39 Art. xxii. 228 They [sc. indulgences] are also affixed to..Rosaries and Scapularies. 1903 Morley Gladstone x. iii. III. 407 They found on his corpse the scapulary worn by devout catholics. |
† 2. Anat. (See quot.) Obs.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man viii. i. (1631) 533 The double Scapulary, or the veines of the shoulder-blade. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. vi. §1. 178 The upper Convexity of Breast and Back..Shoulder, Scapulary. |
† 3. Surg. = scapular n. 2. Obs.
| 1754–64 Smellie Midwifery III. 427, I applied a large compress, and over all the napkin and scapulary. 1879 Stormonth Man. Sci. Terms, Scapulary, a broad bandage with two flaps passed over the shoulders. |
4. = scapular n. 3.
| 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 223 Those [feathers] which lie over the humerus are called ‘scapulariæ’, or scapularies. 1874 Wood Nat. Hist. 261 On the neck, the back, the shoulders, and the scapularies, the black hue is shot with bronze, green, and purple. |
▪ II. scapulary, a.
(ˈskæpjʊlərɪ)
In 6 scopelary.
[ad. F. scapulaire and mod.L. scapulārius, f. scapula: see scapula and -ary.]
† 1. scapulary mantle: a cloak covering the shoulders. Obs. [Cf. OF. cote eschapulaire.]
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 46 b, The kynge was in a scopelary mantel, and hatt of clothe of syluer. |
2. = scapular a. 1.
| 1785 J. Lucas in Med. Commun. II. 92 The canula was secured in the wound by a bandage, with scapulary straps. 1880 Günther Fishes x. 150 The Heart is situated..between the two halves of the scapulary arch. |