单词 | ostiary |
释义 | ostiaryn.adj. A. n. 1. A doorkeeper, esp. of a church; spec. a member of the lowest of the four lesser orders in the pre-Reformation Western Church, and later in the Roman Catholic Church. Now historical.The Roman Catholic order of ostiary was suppressed by Pope Paul VI in 1972. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > person in minor orders > ostiary > [noun] churchwardOE ostiariusOE ostiary?a1475 ostiar1588 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper doorwardc950 gate-wardc1000 porter?a1300 ostiary?a1475 portitor1480 doorkeeper1535 gatekeeper1572 janitora1640 conciergea1697 hall-keeper1705 durwan1773 commissioner1820 lodge-keeper1855 doorman1858 lodge-man1892 commissionaire1895 dvornik1903 linkman1939 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 97 (MED) Gayus the pope..ordeynede diverse degres of ordres in þe churche, as hostiary, reder, benette, accolette, and oþer. c1534 Image of Ypocresye I. iv. 250 And Some be of St. marys, Some be hostiaris, And of St. Iohns frarys. 1568 L. Vaux Catechisme f. 95 The inferior Orders haue some speciall matter apperteyning to their Order: as the geuing of the keyes to the Ostiarie or Porter. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 28 Lastly, Ostiaries; which used to ring the bels, and open and shut the Church-doores. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxiv. 156/1 The Library..had at first a Library Keeper, and an Under Library Keeper, and an Ostiary. 1790 Family Prayer Bk. (Episc. Church) 726/2 The Ostiary is he, who keepeth the door of the Church, and tolleth the bell. 1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) App. v. 182 If any clerk, from an ostiary to a priest, appear without his tunic. 1908 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 259 The desire was, of course, to withhold even from the eyes of the initiated the act and the ‘mystic symbols’; hence..the watch at the door by the ostiaries. 1999 L. C. Lambdin Chaucer's Pilgrims 56 Below the major orders were the ‘minors’, including the acolytes..; exorcists..; lectors, readers of scripture; and ostiaries, or doorkeepers. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall mouthlOE issue1423 firthc1425 estuary15.. fall1511 port1555 inset1559 water mouth1574 open1582 emboguing1603 ostium1611 inver1615 outfall1629 ostiary1646 influx1652 disclosure1660 discharge1688 waterfoot1730 outflux1739 embouchure1792 sortie1809 beal1819 debouchure1832 salting-place1842 embouchement1844 debouchment1859 ria1887 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. viii. 312 The River of Nilus hath seven ostiaries . View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. v. 82 Some onely counted the grand and solemn ostiaries of Nilus. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 79 For we are carried into the dark Lake, like the Ægyptian River into the Sea, by seven principal Ostiaries. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston 658 A great portion of silt doth daily settle in the mouth of that ostiary. That is in charge of a door. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [adjective] > relating to door- or gate-keeper porterly1581 gatekeeping1825 ostiary1866 janitorial1885 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xlviii. 320 He pushed the ostiary footman back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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