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OSTIARIUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ostiarius mean?
• OSTIARIUS (noun)
The noun OSTIARIUS has 1 sense:
1. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Familiarity information: OSTIARIUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
doorkeeper; ostiarius; ostiary
Hypernyms ("ostiarius" is a kind of...):
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)
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