Crossword clues for crucifer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crucifer \cru"ci*fer\ (-f?r), n. [See Cruciferous.] (Bot.) Any plant of the family Crucifer[ae].
Wiktionary
n. 1 (''Roman Catholic church'') a person who carries a cross in a religious procession 2 (context botany English) a member of the family ''Cruciferae'', the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the family Cruciferae [syn: cruciferous plant]
Wikipedia
A crucifer is, in some Christian churches (particularly the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutherans, and United Methodist Church), a person appointed to carry the church's processional cross, a cross or crucifix with a long staff, during processions at the beginning and end of the service. However, while it is used in several different denominations, the term is most common within Anglican churches.
The term "crucifer" comes from the Latin crux (cross) and ferre (to bear, carry). It thus literally means "cross-bearer".
Before the Roman Catholic reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the function of the crucifer was generally carried out by a subdeacon. Per the seventeenth century Council of Milan, a crucifer should when possible be a clergy and if a lay person be selected that they "the most worthy of the laity should be selected for the office." For more solemn processions, including the Blessed Sacrament, Palm Sunday, and Candlemas Day, the cleric should vested in amice, alb, and tunic. While on less solemn occasions, a clergy may just be vested in surplice. During the procession the staff is held with both hands such that the cross is well above the head. The cross-bearer leads the procession except when there is a thurifer and is accompanied by two acolytes on the more solemn occasions.
Usage examples of "crucifer".
Ulad, furious as usual, led the way behind the cardinal crucifer, but kept looking back to see that the others stayed in line.
I bow my head as the crucifer leads the procession, and then the choir comes past me.
He was said to have asked permission of the pope, that a crucifer should precede him in processions.
At the climax, the hero beat the priest to death with his own crucifer, and prepared to welcome Them as They came.
After the service in the church the procession of choir and clergy, headed by the crucifer, issues from the doorway, followed by stalwart men carrying the bier upon their shoulders.
Immediately within the nave, the crucifer, thurifers and choristers waited, and the latter burst into a joyful psalm as the processed before the priests up the long nave to the parish altar of St Lawrence, set just before the western arch of the crossing.
A crucifer and two priests swinging thuribles walked before him, and Lord Tammaron and Richard Murdoch rode to either side, both soberly clad in mourning like the rest.
Then it goes on to ‘Anti-crop BW agents’, which they say would be used as economic weapons, as I personally think is the case with the Blofeld scheme, and they mention a whole list including potato blight, cereal stem disease, crown rust of oats, curly top disease of sugar beets, block rot of crucifers and potato ring rot, and insects such as the Colorado beetle and something called ‘the Giant African Land-snail’, which I somehow don’t think we need worry about.
Then it goes on to "Anti-crop BW agents", which they say would be used as economic weapons, as I personally think is the case with the Blofeld scheme, and they mention a whole list including potato blight, cereal stem disease, crown rust of oats, curly top disease of sugar beets, block rot of crucifers and potato ring rot, and insects such as the Colorado beetle and something called "the Giant African Land-snail", which I somehow don't think we need worry about.
The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral's nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.
The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral’s nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.
The celebrants began to process: cassocked and sur-pliced thurifer swinging pungent incense, crucifer with black-shrouded processional cross, altar boys bearing glowing silver candlesticks.