gremial

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gremial

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Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or pertaining to the lap.

noun gremials

  1. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
  2. obsolete A bosom friend. These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and t

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@misc{gremial_2026,
  title = {gremial},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gremial},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}