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
An liceat sacerdoti accipere ostensorium per manus diaconi istud ex altari acceptum porrigentis, ut populo benedictio impertiatur, et post benedictionem remittere ostensorium diacono, qui super altare deponet, prout fit in nonnullis ecclesiis?
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
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
He stood upright on the summit of the altar-steps, immediately in front of the ostensorium, ready to bless the princes and the people.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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