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Definition: Crozier |
CrozierNoun1. 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 "crozier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crozier or Crosier. An archbishop's staff terminates in a floriated cross, while a bishop's crook has a curved, brackenlike head. A bishop turns his crook outwards, to denote his wider authority; an abbot (whose crook is the same as a bishop's) carries it turned inwards, to show that his jurisdiction is limited to his own inmates. When walking with a bishop an abbot covers his crook with a veil hanging from the knob, to show that his authority is veiled in the presence of his superior. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CrozierSynonym: crosier (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crozier |
| Specialty definitions using "crozier": Monumental Figures ♦ Symbols of Saints. (references) |
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 | "The great ice barrier - looking east from Cape Crozier." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 51. Watercolor by Edward A. Wilson. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Cave in the barrier, Cape Crozier, Jan. 4th, 1911. In: "Scott's Last Expedition", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. P. 24. Vol. II. Library Call Number G850 1910 .S35 1913. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Rev. H.P. Wright, principal chaplain to the forces in the Crimea & Reverend Messieurs Wallace, Sykes, Parson, H.A. Taylor, Boudier, Parker, Preston & Crozier. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Independent Benevolent Society of Philadelphia / Wm. Crozier pinxt. ; H. Anderson sct. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Crozier" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.76% of the time. "Crozier" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 82.76% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 17.24% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crozier" 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 |
| Crozier | Last name | 2,000 | 6,769 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Crozier, VA |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "crozier": Buffington-Crozier carriage. | |
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| 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 |
crozier | 27 |
bank crozier | 25 |
crozier lorna | 12 |
center chester crozier medical | 9 |
crozier va | 7 |
chester crozier hospital | 7 |
crozier lois | 5 |
michel crozier | 5 |
chester crozier | 5 |
crozier roger | 4 |
crozier hospital | 4 |
bishop crozier | 4 |
crozier genealogy ireland | 3 |
brian crozier | 2 |
crozier francis | 2 |
crozier jeremy | 2 |
body crozier l leaf sometimes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crozier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | Ράβδοσ Επίσκοπου, ΠατεÏίτσα. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | pásztorbot (crook, crosier). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | Pastorale (bucolic, crosier, pastoral, Pastorale). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | tersyn, lorg aspickagh, croagane aspickagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oziercray Biskopsstav (crosier, pastoral). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | crociarius. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | croisier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crozier": croziers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crozier" (pronounced krō"zher) |
| 3 | -ō" zh er | closure, composure, disclosure, enclosure, exposure, foreclosure, inclosure, Mosher, overexposure. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-z" | |
-1 letter: corrie, cozier, crozer, orrice. | |
-2 letters: corer, cozie, crier, crore, croze, ricer. | |
-3 letters: cero, cire, coir, core, rice, zero, zoic, zori. | |
-4 letters: cor, coz, err, ice, ire, orc, ore, rec, rei, roc, roe. | |
-5 letters: er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-r-z" | |
+1 letter: croziers, cruzeiro. | |
+2 letters: cruzeiros. | |
+3 letters: recognizer. | |
+4 letters: decolorizer, mycorrhizae, recognizers. | |
+5 letters: decarbonizer, decolorizers, democratizer, procarbazine, reflectorize, synchronizer. | |
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