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sindon Now only Hist.|ˈsɪndən|
Also 5–6 syndone, 5–7 sindone; 5–7 syndon (5 -oun).
[a. OF. syndone, sindone, or a. L. sindon (-ŏnis), a. Gr. σινδών (-όνος), prob. of Oriental origin.]
1. A fine thin fabric of linen; a kind of cambric or muslin.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 95 The body bewrapped in Syndone. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Matt. xxvii. 59 Ioseph taking the body, wrapt it in cleane sindon. Ibid., Mark xiv. 51 A certaine yong man folowed him clothed with sindon vpon the bare. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 163 The countrey of Media, whether the Russie merchants trauell for raw silkes, sindon, saffron and other commodities. 1631Weever Funeral Mon. 16 They..inuested the defunct, with..perfumed sereclothes, fine Aromaticke Sindon, and the like. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 64 A Head-peece, lin'd with Syndon or fine Linen. [1860Our English Home 29 A square piece of this fabric, lined with silk or scarlet sindon.]
2. A piece of this fabric used for various purposes:
a. As a shroud, spec. that in which the body of Christ was wrapped. Also in It. form ‖ sindone.
c1500Kennedie Passion of Christ 1219 Ane pretius claith, quhilk we ane syndon call, That kingly corps to couer he coft syne. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 259 The corporas [signifyeth] the syndone or sudary wherin his blessed body was..wrapped. 1610A. Cooke Pope Joan 40 Many Papists are perswaded they haue that Syndon wherein Christs body was lapped. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vi. 117 Afterwards they were wrapped up in a Sindon, bound hand and foot with grave cloaths. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) I. 54 The Holy Syndon, wherein they say our Saviour's body was wound up and buried. 1902tr. P. Vignon's Shroud of Christ ii. 50 If ‘the napkin’ of St. John were the face-kerchief, where would have been the Shroud (sindon)? 1912H. Thurston in Month Nov. 539 One could well imagine that when the body had been laid out and covered back and front with the long impregnated sindon, strips of linen were used to secure the feet..keeping the sindon in its place. 1933Dublin Rev. Jan. 36 St. Nino, a Georgian princess..was told that the Sindon was formerly in the possession of St. Peter. 1963Guardian 31 May 12/3 The famous Holy Shroud, or Sindone, of Turin.
b. As a corporas.
1553Respublica 873 Thei had thalter clothes,..with the sindons in which wer wrapte the chalices. 1885J. H. Newman Callista (1890) 340 The deacon received from the acolyte the sindon, or corporal,..and spread it upon the sacred table.
c. As a garment or wrapper.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 32 He vsed no woollen vesture, but wore a Sindone. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Mark xiv. 52 But he casting of the sindon, fled from them naked. 1609Bible (Douay) Judges xiv. 12, I wil geve you thirtie sindones, and as many coates. 1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 10 There were found in it a Book, and a Letter; Both..wrapped in Sindons of Linnen. a1700Evelyn Diary 23 Apr. 1661, Then was a coyfe put on [the King], and the cobbium, syndon, or dalmatic.
d. As a surgical appliance, being made up into a small roll or pledget, usually with some medicament, and used to fill up an open wound.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 199 Pulverated and sowed in a double syndon or pure cloth. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 76 A Syndon (that is a piece of fine cloth,..having a thread fastened to the middle to draw it forth by). 1736Phil. Trans. XLI. 497 A large and thick Sindon dipt in a warm detergent Lotion. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 78 We placed Linen Sindons upon the Dura Mater.
3. attrib. Made or consisting of sindon.
c1500Kennedie Passion of Christ 1298 Thir twa knychtis..In syndoun claith him wand with reuerence. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 168 They [the Egyptians] sow up the body, which being done, they did put it in fine sindon cloth. 1688Holme Armoury i. 11 That Auriflamb, that was so much admired by the French, was but of one color, a square red Syndon Banner. Ibid. iii. xviii. (Roxb.) 122/1 Holy-oke termes it a church Banner, flag or streamer, others a Syndon Banner.
Hence ˈsindonless a. (in sense 2 c).
c1595Southwell St. Peter's Complaint 25 With easie losse sharpe wrecks did he eschew, That Sindonlesse aside did naked slip. |