'Gird me, O Lord, with the cincture of faith, and the loins of my body with the virtue of chastity, and extinguish my fleshly desires, that the unbroken chain of a chastity entire may continually abide in me.
42.
An officiant " capite velato " who needed free use of both hands to perform ritual could employ a method of belting, known as the " Gabinian cincture " ( " cinctus Gabinus " ), which tied the toga back.
43.
The subdeacon then completes his vesting by placing the stole ( a long narrow embroidered piece of cloth, similar to the maniple but of greater length ) over his left shoulder and binds it in place, at his right hip, with the cincture or girdle.
44.
The fitted bliaut was sometimes worn with a long belt or cincture ( in French, " ceinture " ) that looped around a slightly raised waist and was knotted over the abdomen; the cincture could have decorative tassels or metal tags at the ends.
45.
The fitted bliaut was sometimes worn with a long belt or cincture ( in French, " ceinture " ) that looped around a slightly raised waist and was knotted over the abdomen; the cincture could have decorative tassels or metal tags at the ends.
46.
The Cincture of the Theotokos, long in the Church of St . Mary of Blachernae in Constantinople ( Istanbul ), and now in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos, is the main equivalent relic of the Eastern Orthodox Church, drawing on the same legend.
47.
Historically, a " Jesuit-style cassock " became " standard issue " : it wrapped around the body and was tied with a cincture, rather than the customary buttoned front, a tuftless biretta ( only diocesan clergy wore tufts ), and a ferraiolo ( cape ).
48.
The Dormition tradition is associated with various places, most notably with Jerusalem, which contains Mary's Tomb and the Basilica of the Dormition, and Ephesus, which contains the House of the Virgin Mary, and also with Constantinople where the Cincture of the Theotokos was enshrined from the 5th through 14th centuries.
49.
The "'Cincture of the Theotokos "'is an alleged relic of the Theotokos ( Blessed Virgin Mary ), now in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos, which is Greek : " zone " ) is sometimes also translated as " belt ", " sash " or " girdle ".
50.
The cassock is worn with a cincture, which may take the form of a cloth sash resembling a Evening Prayer instead of the surplice which was reserved for use at the Holy Communion-the cassock, bands, gown, academic hood and tippet still being the normal liturgical costume for ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and other Reformed and Presbyterian churches.
