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Definition: Crosier |
CrosierNoun1. A staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crosier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: CrosierSynonym: crozier (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Those used by bishops have curved or hooked tops, similar in appearance to staves traditionally used by shepherds, and representing the bishop's office as "shepherd of the flock of God." Crosiers carried by abbots are similar, but usually smaller, and carried with the curve toward the back rather than toward the front as with bishops. Those carried by archbishops more typically have a cross at the top.
A crosier was also carried on some occasions by the pope beginning in the early days of the church. This practice was gradually phased out and had disappeared by the time of Innocent III's papacy in the eleventh century. It was later revived; John Paul II is often seen using a crosier after the archbishop's style.
The term derives from the Old English word crycc, meaning "crutch."
The crosier is conferred upon ordination into office.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crosier."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Canonicals | Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crosier |
| English words defined with "crosier": Crosiered ♦ Pastoral staff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crosier": Fuga ad Salices. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crosier": Lacrosse. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crosier" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crosier | Last name | 1,000 | 12,868 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crosier | 10 |
carrier crosier | 5 |
crosier funeral home mayfield pearson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crosier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صولجان الأسقف (staff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | владишки жезъл (crook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | biskupská berla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sauva (baton, rod, staff, stick, wand), piispansauva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | croiser (cross, cruise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, staff, stave, stick, stump, swab, wand), bischofsstab (crook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ράβδοσ επίσκοπου, πατερίτσα (crutch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pásztorbot (crook, crozier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pastorale (bucolic, Crozier, pastoral, Pastorale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osiercray bastão episcopal. (various references) епископский посох. (various references) báculo (crook). (various references) biskopsstav (Crozier, pastoral). (various references) piskopos asası (crook, verge). (various references) "пископська патериця. (various references) bagl esgob. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crosier": crosiers. (additional references) | |
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"Crosier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coisir, cosie, cossie, crasie, critier, croesi, croesian, Croesor, croiser, Croissier, crokier, Crorie, croser, Crossier, crusia, Crwother, Grozier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "crosier" (pronounced 'Cro"sier'): Cosier, Hoosier, hosier. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cirrose, corries, orrices. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: corers, corrie, cosier, criers, crores, orrice, ricers, rosier, scorer. | |
-2 letters: ceros, cires, coirs, corer, cores, corse, cosie, crier, cries, crore, orris, osier, ricer, rices, riser, score, sorer. | |
-3 letters: cero, cire, coir, core, cors, cris, eros, errs, ices, ires, orcs, ores, recs, reis, rice, rise, rocs, roes, rose, sice, sire, sore, sori. | |
-4 letters: cis, cor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: couriers, crosiers, croziers, resorcin. | |
+2 letters: carrioles, chorister, cirrhoses, codrivers, coinsurer, corrasive, corrodies, corrosive, courtiers, creditors, crossfire, croupiers, cruzeiros, curiouser, directors, divorcers, exorciser, groceries, misrecord, oratrices, proscribe, recoilers, recordist, rectories, recursion, rejoicers, rescoring, resorcins, rhetorics, rockeries, scroggier, sorceries, torchiers, tricornes, trisector. | |
+3 letters: carnivores, carrotiest, choristers, coinsurers, contraries, contrivers, coprisoner, corianders, cornerwise, coronaries, corrosives, corsetiere, corsetries, couturiers, cowberries, criterions, crockeries, crookeries, crossfires, descriptor, discourser, discoverer, escritoire, exorcisers, intercrops, intercross, microbrews, micromeres, micropores, microspore, misericord, misrecords, overprices, overtricks, paregorics, precarious, predictors, prescoring, proscribed, proscriber, proscribes, reconfirms, reconsider, recordings, recordists, recoveries, recrossing, rectorship, recursions, rediscover, reinforces, rescissory, resorcinol, retrodicts, rhinoceros, rocketries, scroungier, seborrheic, supermicro, trisectors. | |
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