Obs. [ad. L. calceātus, pa. pple. of calceāre to shoe, f. calceus shoe; see -ATE2.]
Furnished with shoes, shod. Fathers Calceate: the ‘mitigated’ or ‘moderate’ Carmelites, who do not go barefoot. Also as sb.
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xvii. 117. He lived among the Fathers Calceate of the Rule relaxed. Ibid., II. xxi. 137. A Calceate Carmelite. Ibid., II. xxvii. 170. To live … apart from the Calceates.
