Usage examples (33)

• On grounds no more solid than this, charges of Atheism are often erected by 'surpliced sophists.'
• Thus ended the "Battle of the White," so named from the great number of surpliced clergy who took part therein.
• Lowest in rank are the surpliced choristers wearing hoods, with, in some instances, a liripipe depending from them behind.
• There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergy - man, who seemed to be expostulating with them.