discalced
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They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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There is a small village next the walls called San Juan, which is in charge of the discalced religious of St. Augustine.
The discalced Augustinians, who had gone to aid the Jesuits in 1621 in extending their jurisdictions of Butuan and Caraga, had 20,000 more or so in charge.
Description of the island of Mindòro, and considerations in regard to its spiritual conquest, which was partly obtained before our discalced order assumed its administration.
And the father master, Fray Joseph Sicardo, adds very fittingly, that “our discalced religious having received the great island of Mindòro, increased the Christianity of its natives by means of so zealous ministers.”