ciborium
Americannoun
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a permanent canopy placed over an altar; baldachin.
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any container designed to hold the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the Eucharist.
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Archaic. a severy.
noun
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a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
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a freestanding canopy fixed over an altar and supported by four pillars
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ciborium
1645–55; < Latin: drinking-cup < Greek kibṓrion literally, the seed vessel of the Egyptian lotus, which the cup apparently resembled
Example Sentences
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What is the Tabernacle and what is the Ciborium?
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 3 by Anonymous
The Ciborium is the large silver or gold vessel which contains the Blessed Sacrament while in the Tabernacle, and from which the priest gives Holy Communion to the people.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 3 by Anonymous
In it is a beautiful Ciborium by Andrea della Robbia, with monuments of some of the Altoviti family.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
Opposite the town hall is the huge fifteenth-century church of St. Pierre, the interior of which, still smothered in whitewash in 1910, was remarkable for its florid Gothic rood-screen and soaring Tabernacle, or Ciborium.
From Beautiful Europe: Belgium by Morris, Joseph Ernest
I waited, holding the Sacred Host over the Ciborium.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
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