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Definition of Ostiaries
1. ostiary [n] - See also: ostiary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostiaries
Literary usage of Ostiaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"In Latin Western Europe, outside of Rome, in the late Roman era and the one
following, the ostiaries were still actually employed as guardians of the church ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"For the Gallican Rite, short statements concerning the ordination of the lower
orders, among them that of the ostiaries, are found in the "Statuta ecclesiae ..."
3. Of the Church, Five Books by Richard Field (1850)
"... space in these degrees, and therefore the solemn designing of them thereunto
was not to be disliked; but now, when they execute the office of ostiaries, ..."
4. History of the Church, from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times by Jodocus Adolph Birkhaeuser (1898)
"... of the Church were the acolytes, lectors, exorcists, and ostiaries, or porters.
... -forty-two acolytes, fifty-two exorcists, lectors, and ostiaries. ..."
5. Institutes of Canon Law by Robert Owen (1884)
"The three last appear to ostiaries. JJv _ ^ rr imitate David s constitution of
singers and door-keepers: in the order of Exorcists we have a tradition of ..."
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