noun. A vaulted canopy permanently placed over an altar.

noun. A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

noun. A permanent canopy erected over a high altar; a baldachin.

noun. Any vessel designed to contain the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the eucharist.

noun. A larger receptacle, often of marble, supported on a high stand raised over the altar or elsewhere, containing the pyx or the wafers themselves.

noun. A sort of ambry or cupboard in the wall used for the same purpose.

noun. In conchology, the glossy impression on the inside of the valves of shells where the adductor muscles of the mollusk have been attached; the muscular impression or cicatrix.

noun. A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

noun. The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

noun. A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.

noun. A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

"As has been noted numerous times before, in an age of free-standing altars, the ciborium is one particularly suitable way to lend presence and verticality to our altars -- something the high altar should have, and something which has often been lost in newer or renovated church buildings."

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