† ˈcasule Obs. exc. Hist.
Also in 6 casle.
[OE. casul, also OF. casule, ad. L. casula (dim. of casa cottage), used in late L. for ‘a vestment covering the whole person’ (‘casula est vestis cucullata, dicta per diminutionem a casa, quod totum hominem tegat, quasi minor casa’, Isidore xix. xxiv. 17).]
= chasuble.
| a 1000 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 196 Byrrum, casul. 1557 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 159 Item more a casle of geld price viij l. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 207/1 His [the archbishop of York's] casule, chimer, and rochet. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Casule, or Planet, one of those attires wherewith the Priest is vested, when he says Mass. 1824 Southey Bk. of Ch. (1841) 211 Plucked the priestly casule from his back. |