Meaning of cyborium | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of ciborium.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“There is in the main church of Bibbiena, a small and rather overlooked piece of sculpture in the local sandstone, a cyborium, (holder for the host), which vividly synthesises such a taste and spirit.”

“To St. Andrew's, which is hard-by, he presented a cyborium, weight 135lbs. of the purest silver. The shrine where rests the body of the Apostle of the Gentiles he had inlaid with lamina of silver to the weight of 30lbs.”

“At the end was the Emperor's throne, covered by a cyborium, where he received […]”

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