DALMATIC

was formerly the characteristic dre of the deacon in the administration of the holy eucharist. It was also worn by the bishop at stated times; and in the Latin Church still forms part of the episcopal dre , under the chasuble. It is a robe reaching below the knees, and open at each side for a distance varying at different periods. It is not marked at the back with a cro like the chasuble, but in the Latin Church with two narrow stripes, the remains of the angusti clavi worn on the old Roman dre . In the Greek Church it is called colobi on , is covered with a multitude of small cro es, and has no sleeves. The dalmatic is seen on the effigies of bishops on monuments, and in some old bra es, over the alb and the stole, the fringed extremities of which reach just below it. It has received its name from being the regal vest of Dalmatia. It is the same as the tunicle, which is directed to be worn according to the rubrics of King Edward VI.’s First Prayer Book, by the priests and deacons who may a ist the priest at the holy communion. Like all the other ecclesiastical vestures, it was curtailed by the corrupt practice of later ages in the West, so as not to reach further than the knees.— Jebb.