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Definition of Fossors
1. fossor [n] - See also: fossor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossors
Literary usage of Fossors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"In the third century the fossors were actually reckoned among the clergy as the
lowest grade; and in the fourth it appears (from several inscriptions which ..."
2. Roma Sotterranea: Or, An Account of the Roman Catacombs, Especially of the by Giovanni Battista de Rossi, James Spencer Northcote (1879)
"THE fossors. Pictures and epitaphs of the fossors—Men of talent and shill amongst
them — Their method of ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"At first the fossors seem to have received no regular salary, ... In the fourth
century the corporation of fossors were empowered to sell burial spaces, ..."
4. The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by William Henry Withrow (1884)
"The fossors also probably prepared and engraved the funeral slabs, as seems to
be implied in the follow- * Chrys., Quod Christus sit Deus. See legend, p. ..."
5. The Church in the Catacombs: A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome by Charles Maitland (1846)
"It has been said by some Romanists that the fossors were established by the
apostles, and that their order numbered those young men who carried out the ..."
6. The Church in the catacombs, a description of the primitive Church of Rome by Charles Maitland (1846)
"It has been said by some Romanists that the fossors were established by the
apostles, and that their order numbered those young men who carried out the ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... below the tegulae The hind body is never narrowed at the base into an elongate
pedicel, as it so frequently is in the Wasps and in the fossors; ..."
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