Definition of Calvary cross

1. Noun. A Latin cross set on three steps.

Exact synonyms: Cross Of Calvary
Generic synonyms: Cross

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calvary Cross

Calostomataceae
Calot
Calot's triangle
Caloundra
Calpe
Calpha-dehydrogenase
Caltanissetta
Caltha
Caltha palustris
Calum
Calusa
Caluyanon
Calvados
Calvary
Calvary clover
Calvary cross (current term)
Calvatia
Calvatia gigantea
Calve
Calve-Perthes disease
Calvert Vaux
Calvin
Calvin Benson cycle
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein
Calvin cycle
Calvinball
Calvinism
Calvinist

Literary usage of Calvary cross

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1876)
"Calvary cross IN HANMER CHURCHYARD. IT is stated in a recent work1 that" there were probably not fewer than five thousand crosses in England at the time of ..."

2. A Grammar of British Heraldry, Consisting of Blazon and Marshalling ; with by William Sloane Sloane-Evans (1854)
"The three steps which form part of the Calvary cross signify the three Graces whereby ... When the three arms of a Calvary cross are again crossed (like the ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"Next to this, again, lies another, bearing only a design, and on the right the figures of a chalice and plain calvary cross of five steps, with the sacred ..."

4. A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms by ORBY. SHIPLEY (1872)
"A contraction for Calvary cross. Calvary cross. A crucifix, with attendant figures, placed generally on a mound, representing the hill of Calvary, ..."

5. A Catalogue Raisonné of the British Museum Collection of Rubbings from by Christian Maclagan, British museum (1898)
"One side of it, almost from base to summit, is occupied with a Calvary cross and nimbus, while the whole surrounding space is clothed with the richest ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When the elongated shaft of a cross on a alab rises from two or more steps at its base, il is said to be a Calvary cross. After a while, a brie inscription ..."

7. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"151—160 The CROSS as a Charge—Varieties of—The Passion, or Long Cross —Cross Calvary—Cross Patriarchal—Cross of LORRAINE— Greek Cross, or Cross Couped—Cross ..."

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