Crossword clues for maniple
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maniple \Man"i*ple\, n. [L. manipulus, maniplus, a handful, a certain number of soldiers; manus hand + root of plere to fill, plenus full: cf. F. maniple. See Manual, and Full, a.]
A handful. [R.]
--B. Jonson.A division of the Roman army numbering sixty men exclusive of officers; any small body of soldiers; a company.
--Milton.Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) A handful. 2 A division of the Roman army numbering 60 or 120 men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers; a company. 3 Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes worn in the English Church service.
Wikipedia
The maniple is a liturgical vestment used primarily within the Catholic Church, and occasionally used by some Anglo-Catholic and Lutheran clergy. It is an embroidered band of silk or similar fabric that when worn hangs from the left arm. It is only used within the context of the Mass, and it is of the same liturgical colour as the other Mass vestments.
Maniple may refer to:
- Maniple (military unit), a division of a Roman legion
- Maniple (vestment), a liturgical vestment worn on the left arm.
Maniple (Latin: manipulus, literally meaning "a handful") was a tactical unit of the Roman legion adopted from the Samnites during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). It was also the name of the military insignia carried by such unit.
Maniple members, seen as each other's brothers in arms, were called commanipulares (singular, commanipularis), but without the domestic closeness of the much smaller contubernium.
Usage examples of "maniple".
There were no oxen to haul the logs away so they were cut and split until a five-man maniple could get the resulting chunk up on their shoulders to be carried away.
Herzer set one maniple of third decuri to work on the tree while the rest dug a shallow trench along the edge of the plateau.
He must not allow a maniple of warships to fall into the hands of this insane rebellious Designate.
If the Hyrillka Designate has seized a maniple of ships and is already attacking Dzelluria, then I doubt he would hesitate to do the same here.
But you will not need to send the full maniple against my small colony.
Ildiran Solar Navy, in charge of the maniple facing hydrogues at Hrel-oro.
He led a maniple leftward to make sure no gap opened between the Halogai and his own troops.
Yezda surge almost sent Marcus hurrying back with his maniple to relieve the pressure on the rest of the legionaries, but Gaius Philippus and Gagik Bagratouni battled the nomads to a standstill.
The usual organization is only one or two recruits to a maniple, and I wondered why Lieberman had set this one up this way.
The troops were strung out along almost a full kilometer route, each maniple isolated from the others in the dripping-white blanket that lay across the valley.
Each maniple of five men cooked for itself, did its own laundry, made its own shelters from woven synthetics and rope, and contributed men for work on the encampment revetments and palisades.
Normal practice is to form each maniple with one recruit, three privates, and a monitor in charge.
The job gave him the nominal rank of monitor but he had no maniple to command.
On the main screen, he studied the other ships in the maniple, choosing his first target.
As soon as the local ships rose toward the approaching maniple, the Alturas Designate transmitted again.