Word of the Day: CENATORY

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin cenatorius (pertaining to dinner)

EXAMPLE
“…The consent of the Jews with the Romans in other ceremonies and rites of feasting, makes probable their conformity in this. The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment: and that the same was practised by the Jews, is deduceable from that expostulation of our Saviour with Simon, that he washed not his feet, nor anointed his head with oyl: the common civilities at festival entertainments: and that expression of his concerning the cenatory or wedding garment; and as some conceive of the linnen garment of the young man or St. John; which might be the same he wore the night before at the last Supper. …”

From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
Or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents and And Commonly Presumed Truths
By Thomas Browne, 1650

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