[late L., f. suc- = SUB- + cinctorium girdle, f. cingĕre to gird.] A band or scarf (resembling a maniple) embroidered with an Agnus Dei, worn pendant from the girdle by the Pope on certain occasions.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iv. 175/2. A Bishops Vestments, or Pontifical Symbols of Ecclesiastical Regencie…. Succinctorium, a kind of Girdle.
Hence Succinctory, in same sense.
1572. R. T., Discourse, 28. To glorifie, our holie father the Pope, dothe note Buechingerus and Inocentius … affirme that there are 9 special ornamentes: his hose, his shoes, or sandalles, his succynctory or girdell [etc.].
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 48. Girded with a thong of the skin of the same, in sted of a girdle or succinctorie about his loines.
1868. Walcott, Sacred Archæol., 273. In lieu of a maniple, he has a succinctory.
