Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A staff with a crook or cross at the end, carried by or before an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See crozier, croziered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
staff with a hooked end similar to ashepherd 'scrook , or with across at the end, carried by anabbot ,bishop , orarchbishop as a symbol of office. - noun botany : A young
fern frond , before it hasunrolled ;fiddlehead
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down
The Monastery 2008
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Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth.
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That was called a crosier, Daoud recalled, and was the cardinal's staff of office.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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"The hat and robe will cost four thousand taels, and the crosier, which is of the rarest materials and manufacture, will be sold for the same amount."
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The crosier, which is another external ornament to the shield widely made use of by ecclesiastics, must not be confounded, as it often has been, with the processional cross of an archbishop.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ... ..
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ....
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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• We do appear to have set the cat among the pigeons with recent revelations that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, barred Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the US church, and the first woman to lead an Anglican province, from wearing her mitre or carrying her bishop's crosier during a sermon at Southwark Cathedral.
Diary 2010
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Sinterklaas is dressed like the pope because he was historically a bishop in Myra Turkey, which explains for the mitre, dress, cape and crosier.
Christmas in July: Going Dutch Jen 2009
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