How To Use Crosier In A Sentence
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Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Sinterklaas is dressed like the pope because he was historically a bishop in Myra Turkey, which explains for the mitre, dress, cape and crosier.
Christmas in July: Going Dutch
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Abbey, a cross engrailed, and showing the head of a crosier above the shield in the centre.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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• We do appear to have set the cat among the pigeons with recent revelations that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, barred Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the US church, and the first woman to lead an Anglican province, from wearing her mitre or carrying her bishop's crosier during a sermon at Southwark Cathedral.
Diary
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He rapped with his crosier upon it, saying: - Lift up your heads, you gates, lift yourselves up, you everlasting doors, that the King of Glory may come in.
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Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down
The Monastery
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He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs.
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In it, a bishop who had committed disgraceful acts was stripped of the symbols of his office - mitre, crosier and ring.
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This bishop officiated pontifically and gave his blessing to the people, before whom he appeared bearing the mitre, the crosier, and even the archiepiscopal cross.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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This spring they have come into flower at the same time as a nearby royal fern Osmunda regalis Hillii’ has begun to unroll its crosiers.
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The crosier, which is another external ornament to the shield widely made use of by ecclesiastics, must not be confounded, as it often has been, with the processional cross of an archbishop.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Molyneux, Bishop of Bullocksmithy, doffed crosier and mitre for that day, and though fat and pursy, panted up the breach with the most resolute spirit, roaring out war-cries and curses, and wielding a prodigious mace of iron, with which he did good execution.
Burlesques
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One of the saints in the stained-glass windows yawned, and put up his crosier elegantly to cover his mouth.
CHARMED LIFE
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This abrupt departure in the darkness disappointed some of us, who had promised ourselves the pleasure of seeing his Grandeur depart in state in the morning, shaved, clean, and in full pontificals, the tripping little secretary swinging an incense-pot before him, and the greasy chaplain bearing his crosier.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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The infant Jesus, with a gracious look, takes St Bernard's crosier whilst St Bernard, in his white gloves, joins his hands in prayer.
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That was called a crosier, Daoud recalled, and was the cardinal's staff of office.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
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Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ....
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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In it, a bishop who had committed disgraceful acts was stripped of the symbols of his office - mitre, crosier and ring.
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The hat and robe will cost four thousand taels, and the crosier, which is of the rarest materials and manufacture, will be sold for the same amount.
Chinese Folk-Lore Tales
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It is a large fern in its native habitat of Mexico and has monster crosiers up to 10 ft long.
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In it, a bishop who had committed disgraceful acts was stripped of the symbols of his office - mitre, crosier and ring.
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Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ... ..
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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He enjoys the same honorific privileges (with a few exceptions, viz. throne, cappa magna, mozzetta, and rochet worn without mantelletta, and crosier), pontifical ornaments, and titles, as does the diocesan.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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ETYMOLOGY: Possibly alteration of crutch and partly from Middle English croche, crook, crosier from Old French croche, hook, shepherd's crook, feminine of croc, hook; see crochet.
"What Britney's Crotch Did To My Stats."
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Augustine has placed his bishop's mitre on the altar table and propped his crosier and a censer on either side.
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They especially include reliquaries, morses, and crosiers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
