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discalced

[dis-kalst] / dɪsˈkælst /
ADJECTIVE
barefoot
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
barefooted
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
shoed


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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

And our discalced Recollects, equally with those who have done most, have labored in this undertaking at all times, without despising occasions.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

Others are being converted through the zeal and care of the discalced Augustinian fathers, who regard them as inhabitants of Baslig, which is their headquarters and priorate.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Your Majesty has ordered that no Observantine friars may come to this country, but that all who come be discalced.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Emma Helen Blair

About the same time, also, the Jesuits and the Recollects, or discalced Augustinians, entered the country.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman


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