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    OSTIARIUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Churchplay

    Synonyms:

    doorkeeper; ostiarius; ostiary

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    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("ostiarius" is a kind of...):

    clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

    Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

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