Crosier

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A staff with a crook or cross at the end, carried by or before an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • n. Botany See fiddlehead.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • n. : A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See crozier, croziered.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    staff   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crozier    crook    pastoral   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flower-wreathed    crozier    'a    two-pronged    as-yet-unspecified   
     
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