sodality

The first figure which appears is a veiled penitent bearing the standard of the Sodality.

When the Sodality Bank went up, and old Blaisdell died, everybody said the family was down and out.

He attended to his religious duties with great zeal, and was President of the Sodality as a matter of course.

John Aubrey (writing in 1659) says: “We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern.”

An' I give her to understand sharp off 't she'd better do what she did do if she wanted you in the Sodality at all.