stole2 (stol)

[ For soth the fadir seyde to his seruauntis, Soone brynge ze forth the first stoole , and clothe ze him. Wyclif , Luke xv. 22. Behind, four priests, in sable stole , Sung requiem for the warrior's soul. Scott, L. of L. M., v. 30. 2. In the Roman Catholic, Oriental, and Anglican churches, an ecclesiastical vestment, conrial, worn over the shoulders (by deacons over sisting of a narrow of silk or other mateone shoulder) and hanging down in front to the knees or below them. It is widened and fringed at the ends, and usually has a cro embroidered on it at the middle and at each extremity. Stoles are worn of different colors, according to the ecclesiastical season. When celebrating the eucharist a priest wears his stole cro ed upon the breast and secured by the girdle, at other times simply pendent from the shoulders. A bishop, on account of his pectoral cro , wears it pendent even when celebrating. A deacon wears ears it over the left shoulder and tied on the right side. In the Greek Church the stole has been worn since early times in two different forms, the deacon's ( orarion ) and the priest's ( epitrachelion ). Originally the stole was of linen, and probably was a napkin or cloth indicative of ministering at the altar and at agape. The pall or omophorion is of entirely distinct origin. See orarium. Forth comth the preest with stole aboute his nekke, And bad hire be lyke to Sarra and Rebekke In wysdom and in trout he of mariage. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 459. 3. A chorister's surplice or cotta: an occasional erroneous use. Six little Singing-boys dear little souls - In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 210. 4. In her., usually, a bearing representing a scarf with straight and parallel sides, fringed at each end.-Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bed-chamber in the household of an English king. - Order of the Golden Stole, a Venetian order, the badge of which was a stole of cloth of gold worn over the robes. It disappeared with the independence of the republic of Venice. - Stole-fee, a fee paid to a priest for religious or ecclesiastical service, as for marriages, christenings, and funerals. stoles (stol), п. Same as stolon. stolet, n. An obsolete form of stool. stoled (stōld), a. [ Death. stolen (stō'ln), p. a. [Pp. of steall.] Obtained or acquired by stealth or theft: as, stolen goods. Prov. ix. 17. Stolen waters are sweet.