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A staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
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crozier
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office [syn: crosier ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A crozier is an anatomical feature of many fungi in the phylum Ascomycota that form at the base of asci and look like hook-topped shepherd’s staffs or stylized religious crosiers . During the ascus initial formation the crozier helps to maintain a dikaryotic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crozier \Cro"zier\ (kr?"zh?r), n. See Crosier .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of crosier English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French crocier , from Medieval Latin crociarius "bearer of a cross," from crocia "cross;" also from Old French croisier "one who bears or has to do with a cross" (see cross (n.)). The two words merged in Middle English. Technically, ...
Usage examples of crozier.
I had more time I should like to show you all the bodies which are buried in these niches upon the walls, for they are the early popes and bishops of the Church, with their mitres, their croziers, and full canonicals.
Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops’ croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint,—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite,—snow-white ladies’-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter’s night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time.
Commenting upon this and another journey to Cape Crozier, Wilson wrote: 'The Emperor penguin stands nearly four feet high, and weighs upward of eighty to ninety pounds.
For on arriving at Cape Crozier they found that the Emperor penguins had already hatched out their young, and Wilson was delighted to get the opportunity of studying the chicks at such a tender age.
A sword and crozier crossed in saltire behind the embroidered shield gave hint of his dual status, but only at close range.
Maybe he was really leaning on the elaborate crozier, the very ornate shepherd's crook that is a bishop's staff of office.
The bishop used his crozier in the same style that Margaret had used her broom to shoo away unwanted visitors.
Crozier ordered the cook to serve them their first taste of civilized food-tapioca pudding.