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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It's the anglicization of mandatum novum or "new commandment" given by Jesus on the Thursday before the crucifixion. See John 13:34. It's come to mean the ceremonial foot-washing that occurs at high-church Christian commemorations of Holy Thursday (i.e., Episcopal, Anglo-Catholic, and Roman Catholic). You don't hear a lot of Baptists use the term.
You didn't ask, but "shrove" comes from "to shrive" or to release from one's sins.
ETA: Drat.
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I'm ashamed that such a promising thread bearing my moniker has disintegrated to this.
