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‖ sudarium|s(j)uːˈdɛərɪəm|
[L.: see next.]
1. A napkin or cloth for wiping the face; a handkerchief (in quot. 1801 jocular); spec. the cloth with which, according to legend, St. Veronica wiped the face of Christ on the way to Calvary, and on which his features were impressed; hence, any similar cloth venerated as a relic; a portrait of Christ on a cloth. (Cf. vernicle, veronica.)
1601W. Biddulph in T. Lavender Trav. Four Englishmen (1612) 115 A woman called Veronica..brought forth a Sudarium..to wipe his face. a1700Evelyn Diary 17 Nov. 1644, The miraculous Sudarium indued with the picture of our Saviour's face. 1801Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) I. iii. 46 The most intrepid veteran of us all dares no more than wipe his face with his cambric sudarium. 1816J. Dallaway Stat. & Sculpt. 312 He..holds a sudarium in his right hand and in his left a roll. 1859Gullick & Timbs Painting 61 A representation of this kind—the head of the Saviour on a cloth, and called a ‘sudarium’ is common in the works of early painters.
†b. = maniple 3. Obs.
1688Holme Armoury iii. iv. 187/1 The Manipulus or Sudarium, called also Mappula or Phanon.
2. = sudatorium. Also fig.
1852G. W. Curtis Wand. in Syria, Damascus vii. 329 You rise and enter the Sudarium beyond. 1863Trevelyan Compet. Wallah 171 [In India] the mind, like the body, becomes languid and flabby and nerveless... While this sudarium continues to be the seat of government [etc.]. |