Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A staff about 5 feet long, ending in a hook or curve, or, in the case of an archbishop's crozier, surmounted by an ornamented cross or crucifix, borne by or before a bishop or archbishop on solemn occasions.
- noun One who bears the crozier or the cross; a cross-bearer.
- noun In astronomy, a constellation, the Southern Cross. See
Crux , 2. - noun In botany, the circinate young frond of a fern. Also crozier-head, crozier-bud.
- noun The flat, spirally coiled shell of the cephalopodous mollusk Spirula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
crosier .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
crosier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
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Examples
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St. Patrick, being a Bishop, carried a thing called a crozier -- a kind of long staff, like a shepherd's crook, because _Bishop_ means _shepherd_.
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Papa, who was near me, explained to me that this was called a crozier (crosse), which puzzled me, as crosse is also the name for the drumstick of a chicken.
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The crozier is an ornate staff resembling a shepherd’s crook, which is held by bishops to symbolize their role as shepherds of Christ’s flock.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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The crozier is an ornate staff resembling a shepherd’s crook, which is held by bishops to symbolize their role as shepherds of Christ’s flock.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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A crozier for an English abbess and a chalice, both executed in ivory by Fernand Py and featured in Liturgical Arts Quarterly.
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Yesterday, the blog which was setup to detail the preparations has made an update which shows the new vestments that were commissioned, the crozier that will be used and some of the sanctuary setup generally.
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Now go back to watching 'Two and a half men'. matt crozier
Uma Thurman’s Motherhood Opens to $131 in the UK | /Film 2010
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On the cover was a picture familiar to Mulcahy, a head-and-shoulders shot of Pope John Paul II, resplendent in vestments of green, white, and gold, holding aloft his crozier.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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Slightly less gay than nipples on Bat-suits. matt crozier where can i get some twelve eating class ask chris hansen
Twelve Movie Trailer: Joel Schumacher is Back With…Something | /Film 2010
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Above his head, two angels bear the coat of arms of the Cistercian Order, while below, St. Bernard bears his crozier in his right hand, the abbatial veil curling around its shaft.
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