Pallium

Quick meaning: Pallium is a noun meaning (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.

Meaning

(malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
2. (botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
3. (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.
4. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
5. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

Example Sentences

Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?

Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.

Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.

Word Forms

• pallia
• palliums

Synonyms for pallium

Depending on context, synonyms include cortex, mantle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mantle, cortex, kolobion, phaelonion, academian, phylax.

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