ostensorium
Americannoun
plural
ostensoriaEtymology
Origin of ostensorium
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ostensorium is one of the vessels used at the altar, in celebrating the mass.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
The celebrant, having received the ostensorium, rises, gives the benediction, consigns the ostensorium to the deacon, and kneels once more on the extremity of the predella.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
It is now easy to fix the ceremonies to be observed in cases where the deacon presents the ostensorium to the priest, and receives it from him after the benediction.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
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