द्रव्यमान को मनाते समय एक पुजारी द्वारा पहना जाने वाला एक लंबी आस्तीन वाला वेश्या

Noun:

ईसाइयों के विशष्ट उत्सवों में भाग लेनेवालों की बिना बाँह की एक पोशाक, चैजूबिल,

chasuble's Usage Examples:

Over this the priest, robing for mass, puts on the amice, alb, girdle (cingulum), stole, maniple and chasuble.

Chasuble).

During the first centuries both branches of the Church had used vestments substantially the same, developed from common originals; the alb, chasuble, stole and pallium were the equivalents of the anxItinov, e t fvoXcov, copapcov and 1 The rationale is worn only over the chasuble.

the articles Chasuble and Cope).

Hitherto the chasuble had been worn indifferently by all ministers at the eucharist, even by the acolytes; it had been worn also at processions and other non-liturgical functions; it was now exalted into the mass vestment par excellence, worn by the celebrant only, or by his immediate assistants (deacon and subdeacon) only on very special occasions.

the word "vestment" is used as synonymous with but one liturgical garment - the chasuble, the "mass vestment" par excellence; in the Prayer Book of 1559 "vestments" are eliminated altogether, "ornaments" being substituted as a more comprehensive term.

Of these again, according to the fully developed rules of the Catholic Church, there are three classes: (I) vestments worn only at the celebration of mass - chasuble, maniple, pontifical gloves, pontifical shoes, the pallium and the papal fanone and subcinctorium; (2) vestments never worn at mass, but at other liturgical functions, such as processions, administration of the sacraments, solemn choir services, i.e.

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This was the origin of the principal liturgical vestment, the chasuble (q.v.).

Note the absence of the mitre, the chasuble short or tucked up in front, the maniple still carried in the left hand.

chasuble's Meaning':

a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass