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
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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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At St. Alphonsa’s on Monday, the police said they believed the break-in was a burglary, and noted that a DVD player was taken with the two ceremonial vessels, a monstrance and a ciborium.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2015
Its next choice, a ciborium given to “France or Germany” and assigned a date in the late 14th or early 15th century, was less inspired.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011
In the first of the Schatzkammer's ten rooms stands a gaunt, Carolingian ciborium, or altar canopy, wrought in gold for King Arnulf of Carinthia about A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chalice and ciborium, he packed up and put into his leathern game-bag.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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