ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Gremial

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Gremial is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to the lap.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the lap.

More Meanings

  1. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
  2. (obsolete) A bosom friend.

Example Sentences

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 the scholars could not set their horses in one stable, or rather their books on one shelf.

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