discalced
adj/dɪsˈkælst/
Etymology Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin discalceātus (“barefoot”) + -ed, rendering French déchaussé. By surface analysis, dis- + calced.
1
Catholicism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
- Brother John is a member of the Discalced Carmelites.
2
Broadly, Formal Shoeless; without shoes on; barefoot, or wearing sandals rather than shoes.
- They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 24:
- Related terms
- dis-, Discalced Carmelites, discalceate