ostensorium
Americannoun
plural
ostensoriaEtymology
Origin of ostensorium
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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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
It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sacerdos ascendit ad altare, et ibi facta genuflexione unico genu, ut expeditius surgat, accipit in manibus co�pertis per ejusdem veli extremitates, ostensorium....
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
The old ostensorium, with its inscription just as plainly to be read to-day as when engraved over two centuries ago, can now be seen among the treasures of the State Historical Society, at Madison.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
He was about to take the ostensorium, when Barbarossa made a sign.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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