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The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear
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ampulla
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Word definitions for ampulla in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ampulla \Am*pul"la\, n.; pl. Ampull[ae] . [L. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug. (Eccl.) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass. The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A Roman two-handled vessel. 2 A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. 3 (context anatomy English) The dilated end of a duct.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An ampulla (; plural ampullae ) was, in Ancient Rome, a "small nearly globular flask or bottle, with two handles" ( OED ). The word is used of these in archaeology, and of later flasks, often handle-less and much flatter, for holy water or holy oil in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., type of globular ancient Roman vessel; see ampoule .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils [also: ampullae (pl)]
Usage examples of ampulla.
Jeanne had knowledge of the good Archbishop Remi, who so dearly cherished the royal blood in the holy ampulla at Reims, and of the anointing of the very Christian kings.
Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven.
Bishop takes the ampulla, sprinkles the baptismal water with chrism, and straightway the dove vanishes.
The holy ampulla containing it is kept in the church of Saint Remi at Reims.
Domremy should know of the baptism of King Clovis of France, and of the descent of the Holy Ghost, at the singing of Veni Creator Spiritus, bearing in its beak the holy ampulla, full of chrism blessed by Our Lord?
Saint-Denys in France, the son is but the dauphin and will not enter into his inheritance till the day when the oil of the inexhaustible ampulla shall flow over his forehead.
That person was the man on whom devolved the duty of holding in his consecrated hands the Sacred Ampulla, my Lord Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop Duke of Reims, Chancellor of the Kingdom.
From the oil of the holy Ampulla the King would derive a splendour, a majesty which would impress the whole of France, yea, even the whole of Christendom.
There was an English project for carrying off the holy Ampulla from Reims.
Patriarch set the burning censer on the table, then uncorked the crystal ampulla that hung on a chain around his neck, a tiny phial with many facets that contained a blood-red liquid.
In the last section she had read Louisa was planning to go out to the Valley of the Tombs to bury the scent bottle which had turned out to be a sacred ampulla, at the feet of Isis.
Zorzi began to make the spout, for it was a large ampulla that he was fashioning.
He went on to make the handle of the ampulla, an easy matter compared with making the spout.
He began to take little drops of glass from the furnace on the end of a thin iron, and he drew them out into thick threads and heated them again and laid them on the body of the ampulla, twisting and turning each bit till he had no more, and forming a regular raised design on the surface.
There were kings and princes, from the Pope to the Emperor, who would have given a round sum in gold for the beautiful ampulla of which only a heap of tiny fragments were now left to be swept away.