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Definition of Ostiarius
1. Noun. The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church.
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend, Holy Order, Order
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostiarius
Literary usage of Ostiarius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"MANSFIELD, School Life at Winchester, 223. ostiarius—An office held by the Prefects
in succession. The duties were, to keep order in school, ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"... (sacrista, the keeper of the holy things belonging to the divine worship,)
seemeth to be the same with the ostiarius in the Romish church; ..."
3. Epitaphs of the Catacombs; Or, Christian Inscriptions in Rome During the by James Spencer Northcote (1878)
"Evidence from the inscriptions of the Catacombs to—(i) The hierarchy, pope,
bishop, priest, deacon, exorcist, lector, fossor, or ostiarius—(2. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"But whatever may have been the date of the introduction of the ostiarius as a
... For not only was there an ostiarius (the modern concierge) at the entrance ..."
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