A staff surmounted by the figure of a cross, borne in religious processions, and esp. as an emblem of office before an archbishop.
| 单词 | θ190104 |
| 释义 | society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > staff > [noun] > surmounted by cross (4) crossc1290 A staff surmounted by the figure of a cross, borne in religious processions, and esp. as an emblem of office before an archbishop. cross-staffa1464 Ecclesiastical. An archbishop's cross; also, by confusion, used for crose-staff n. at crose, n. compounds a bishop's crook or crosier. Obsolete exc… crosier1704 Applied to the cross of an archbishop. (Rare before 19th cent.: two 18th cent. instances.) Subcategories:— pole on which cross is borne (1) |
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