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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of apparel.

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Examples

  • It needs to be re-stated, not in such a way as to take the pith out of it, which is what a great deal of the modern craze for re-statement means, but in such a way as to brighten it up again, and to invest it with something of the 'celestial light' with which it was 'apparelled' when it first came.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • He stood beside me at the edge of a deep pool, likewise apparelled and prodigiously skinny.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • At Downside they still wear fine Gothic Revival vestments and the servers apparelled amices and albs; and at Westminster they maintain the severe Roman tradition applied to the modern Roman liturgy, and Latin chasubles continue to be laid out for priests who want to use them.

    Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop 2009

  • In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • One of the footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, believing her to be with the company.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Tall and erect against the dimness within the hall, splendidly apparelled and in her proud prime, there stood old King Henry's sole surviving legitimate child, Empress Maud by her first marriage, countess of Anjou by her second, the uncrowned Lady of the English.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Feel free to put in your plea for apparelled amices and albs instead.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Feel free to put in your plea for apparelled amices and albs instead.

    Ecclesiastical flooring and green biro 2009

  • We know the versatility of the unsubstantial species to which you belong permits them to assume all manner of disguises; we have seen them apparelled in the caftan of a Persian, and the silken robe of a Chinese,

    The Monastery 2008

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