Definition of Orarium

1. a handkerchief [n ORARIUMS or ORARIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orarium

orangoutangs
orangs
orangutan
orangutang
orangutangs
orangutanlike
orangutans
orangy
orant
orants
oraria
orarian
orarians
orarion
orarions
orarium (current term)
orariums
orate
orated
orates
orating
oratio directa
oratio obliqua
oratio recta
oration
orationed
orationing
orations
orator
oratorial

Literary usage of Orarium

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

1. Vestiarium Christianum: The Origin and Gradual Development of the Dress of by Wharton Booth Marriott (1868)
"THE orarium (THE LATER " STOLE.") i. In the Afts of the Council of Toledo, which we have taken as ... Whence this word orarium, and what the origin of the ..."

2. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"... orarium, in token of subjection to the bishop, except when the bearer was an exempt abbot. Abbots also claimed to give the benediction, and confer the ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"When we find that the earliest pictures of the ecclesiastical orarium (ib. plates xxviii. xxx. xxxi.) are, on the whole, similar to the above, the inference ..."

4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"The council of Laodicea has two canons concerning the little habit called the orarium," which was a scarf or tippet to be worn upon the shoulders, ..."

5. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"The Council of Toledo,2 held in 633, forbids Deacons to wear more than one " orarium." That was to be " plain, and without any colours or golden ornament. ..."

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