Crosier

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  • noun. A staff with a crook or cross at the end, carried by or before an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See crozier, croziered.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
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  • noun. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • noun. : A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
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  • noun. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
    • Word Usage
    "Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down"
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    staff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'a  as-yet-unspecified  crozier  flower-wreathed  persecute  
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    Malacca cane  alpenstock  baton  caduceus  cane  
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