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Discalced definition: (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.. See examples of DISCALCED used in a sentence.
Definitions of discalced. adjective. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals. “ discalced friars”. synonyms: discalceate, unshod. see more.
Discalced Carmelites (OCD) who live according to the 16th century reforms of St. Teresa of Avila. Below you will find information on monasteries of each Order in the United States.
The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites ( Latin: Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Saecularis; abbreviated OCDS ), formerly the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and of the Holy Mother Saint Teresa of Jesus, is a third order of Catholic lay persons and secular clergy associated with the Discalced C...
CARMELITES, DISCALCED. The Order of Discalced Friars of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel sprang from the 16th-century reform inaugurated by St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. The Discalced Carmelites, whose mode of life was a return to the observance of the primitive Carmelite rule, had their origin in Spain, but soon spread ...
The earliest known use of the adjective discalced is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for discalced is from 1615, in a translation by Edward Grimeston, translator. discalced is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; originally modelled on a French lexical item.
Discalced (Lat. dis, without, and calceus, shoe), a term applied to those religious congregations of men and women, the members of which go entirely unshod or wear sandals, with or without other covering for the feet. These congregations are often distinguished on this account from other branches of the same order.
