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Meanings of crosier in English
A staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office ceremonial staff in Christianity.
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Usage of crosier in English
1
The archbishop crushed it unwittingly in the hand that held the crosier.
2
His left hand, over which hangs the maniple, has a rich crosier.
3
Striking the crosier on the floor three times, he gestured to the board.
4
He wore a jewelled chasuble, and held a silver crosier in one hand.
5
Then the crosier was blessed, and presented to the elected archbishop with these words.
6
The monk laid aside his mitre and crosier and said,-
7
The bishop stretched out his stained-glass crosier and tapped the nun on the shoulder.
8
I was the crosier-bearer to his Holiness Bishop Christopher.
9
Do I not feel the crosier on my breast?
10
The tiny fellow in charge of the mitre and crosier peeps out with a mischievous countenance.
11
The bishop wears a miter and holds in his left hand the pastoral staff, or crosier.
12
Declan, his crosier in his hand, pursued the receding tide and his disciples followed after him.
13
They have found a tomb of an abbot, with a crosier, at length on the stone.
14
His Pastoral Staff had ever been a crosier.
15
The abbot of La Trappe, leaning on his crosier, waited, unmoving, a few paces from her.
16
Sceptre, crosier, sheep-crook is none there for him.
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Translations for crosier
Portuguese
Crosier through the time