Crossword clues for crosier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crosier \Cro"sier\ (kr?"zh?r), n. [OE. rocer, croser, croyser, fr. croce crosier, OF. croce, croche, F. crosse, fr. LL. crocea, crocia, from the same German or Celtic sourse as F. croc hook; akin to E. crook.] The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Note: The true shape of the crosier was with a hooked or
curved top; the archbishop's staff alone bore a cross
instead of a crook, and was of exceptional, not of
regular form.
--Skeat.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office. 2 (context botany English): A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
WordNet
n. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office [syn: crozier]
Wikipedia
A crosier (also known as a crozier, paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff carried by high-ranking Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran, United Methodist and Pentecostal prelates. Other typical insignia of many of these prelates are the mitre, the pectoral cross, and the episcopal ring. A crosier staff is a part of the tradition of Jewish Christianity.
A crosier, or crozier, is the stylized staff of office carried by high-ranking Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, some Lutheran and Pentecostal prelates.
Crosier or Crozier may also refer to:
- Crozier (surname)
- Crozier (crater), a lunar crater
- Crozier (mycology), an anatomical feature of many fungi in the phylum Ascomycota
- Crosier, a member of Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross, a Roman Catholic order
- Cape Crozier, the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica
- Crozier Island, off the northwest coast of Greenland
- Crozier, Virginia, USA, an unincorporated community
- Crozier, another name for fiddlehead fern, a furled frond of a young fern
Usage examples of "crosier".
On the corner opposite, the old man from the house above bent sweeping leaves into a dustpan, straightened up carrying the thing level before him like an offering, each movement, each shuffled step reckoned anxiously toward an open garbage can where he emptied it with ceremonial concern, balanced the broom upright like a crosier getting his footing, wiping a dry forehead, perching his glasses square and lifting his bald gaze on high to branches yellow-blown with benisons yet to fall.
Hurrying down corridors and climbing from level to level, Bisesa passed through a bewildering variety of rooms, each elaborately decorated, containing altars, statues, friezes, and obscure-looking equipment like crosiers, ornate knives, headdresses, musical instruments similar to lutes and sackbuts, even small carts and chariots.
It's minor-key enough to be eerie against the empty lilt of the voice and the clinks of tines and china as Mario's relations eat turkey salad and steamed crosiers and drink lager and milk and vin blanc from Hull over behind the plants bathed in purple light.
Henry the Fourth, of Germany, asserted the right of investitures, the prerogative of confirming his bishops by the delivery of the ring and crosier.
Then came several biscops and presbyters whose cities and names Ivar couldn't keep straight, followed at the end by an elderly presbyter named Hatto who had not minded praying beside Ivar at the service of Lauds three days ago and, finally, by young Biscop Odila of Mainni, who had only recently taken up miter and crosier.
They had snow-white or pitch-black beards, miters and amulets and chains and crosiers.
Then appeared the chaplains in surplices and grey amices, who were followed, after a short interval, by ten bishops, mitred, clothed in scarlet, with rochets and copes, and each carrying a crosier.