crosier

Definitions

1. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
2. A surname.
3. A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.

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Examples

“[…]the lives of the Latin clergy were more corrupt, and the Eastern bishops might pass⟳ for the successors of the apostles, if they were compared with the lordly prelates, who wielded by turns the crosier, the sceptre, and the sword.”

““Nay, most gracious sovereign,” answered the Hermit, (well known to the curious in penny-histories of Robin Hood, by the name⟳ of Friar Tuck,) “it is not the crosier I fear, but the sceptre. […]””

“[…]the plastic tube hanging from his nose was attached to an upturned bottle on a tall stand⟳ on wheels that he pushed along beside him like⟳ a bishop pushing his crosier.”

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