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cross-bearer|ˈkrɒsˌbɛərə(r), ˈkrɔːs-|
[cross- 1.]
I. One who bears, wears, or carries a cross.
1. An attendant who carries a cross in a procession or religious ceremony; he who bears an archbishop's cross before him.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 58 Thomas Becket..through the instigation of certain about him, but chiefely of his crosse-bearer. 1644Evelyn Diary 23 Nov., The Crosse-bearer on horseback, with two Priests at each hand on foote. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 94 He has..the Bishop of Rochester (Time was) for his Cross-bearer. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 186 Besides a cross-bearer and flag-bearer, there were..a score of regular attendants all carrying lighted tapers.
2. One who wears a cross in sign of a vow; spec. applied to certain officers of the Inquisition pledged to prosecute heretics.
1731Chandler tr. Limborch's Hist. Inquis. I. 191 There is another sort of them, called Cross-Bearers, instituted by Dominick, to whom he gave such Constitutions..as obliges them vigorously to prosecute Hereticks.
3. fig. One who ‘takes up his cross’ and follows Christ.
1540Coverdale Fruitf. Less. i. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 294 Make us true cross-bearers and followers of thee.
II. ˈcross-ˈbearer. [from cross a., cross- 4.]
4. (See quot.)
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Cross-bearer, the transverse bars supporting the grate-bars of a furnace. |