Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eccles., any vessel or receptacle used to contain sacred objects.
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- noun rare
pyx (container for the host)
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Examples
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He allowed the Apostle to live near the imperial palace in what was known as custodia militaris, his right wrist being connected day and night, by means of a chain, to the left arm of a soldier, who was relieved at regular intervals (Conybeare, Howson, Lewin).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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A custodia is a group of religious houses not large enough to form a province.
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Georgina Parga pictured watching the soap opera 'Amor en custodia' on March 7, 2006.
Watching TV 2011
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Note 23: Constituciones diligenter attendant in muris, septis, rotis et cla [u] suris necnon et custodia eorum, qui pro tempore ingrediuntur.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Unde et nos pie credimus, confidimus et speramus, quod Theothocos, sancta polorum terreque potentissima imperatrix, inter alia loca dominacionis sue ortum sibi deliciarum preuiderit, elegerit et constituerit istud sanctum monasterium ex antiquo, in quod libenter perambulauit et frequenter, clausum Dei custodia circumdedit et protexit diligenter, ex quo orationum feruencium et uirtutum omnium spirauit odor suauissimus habundanter.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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El cancionero musical llamado de la Colombina, o de la Biblioteca de la Colombina, en razón del depósito que lo custodia, está conservado en la catedral de Sevilla, Biblioteca indicada, bajo la sigla de manuscrito 7-I-28.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Belloc hizo el centro de sus preocupaciones publicísticas su experiencia de la Iglesia católica como custodia de la vida y la riqueza humana.
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Consul of Antioch, offered a hundred pounds of gold to a fair young wife, and besides to set her husband free, who was then sub gravissima custodia, a dark prisoner, pro unius noctis concubitu: but the chaste matron would not accept of it.
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Nulla certior custodia innocentia: inexpugnabile munimentum munimento non egere.
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Regum palatium non tam diligenti custodia septum fuit, ac aedes meas stipabant, &c. 5288.
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