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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 Churchplay

  Familiarity information: OSTIARIUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OSTIARIUS (noun)


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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