Stoled

ppl. a. [f. STOLE sb.¹ (? and v.¹) + -ED.] Wearing a stole (in various senses of the sb.)

  In the first quot. apparently misused for ‘surpliced.’

1546–7.  Test. Ebor., VI. 254. To every clerke iiij d. and every childe, being stolde, ij d.

1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Tri., II. xvii. After them flewe the Prophets, brightly stol’d In shining lawne.

1629.  Milton, Hymn Nativ., xxiv. In vain … The sable-stoled Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark.

1787.  Polwhele, Engl. Orator, II. 90. Where … amid the stoled Tribe Persuasion’s swift-descending Genius swells The Oration’s Period.

1808.  Scott, Marmion, VI. Introd. That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.

1839.  Mrs. Browning, Sabbath Morn., xii. Though this sabbath comes to me Without the stolèd minister, Or chanting congregation.

1842.  Tennyson, Morte d’Arthur, 197. All the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream.

1865.  Neale, Hymns Paradise, 43. The purple stoled Confessors.

1873.  R. Wilton, Wood Notes, 33. At the Lord’s Table, waiting, robed and stoled Till all had knelt around, I saw a sign.