Meaning of ostiary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
   archaic
2. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

Examples

“the river of Nilus hath seven ostiaries, that is, by seven channels disburdened itself into the sea”

“They had other inferiour degrees of the Clergy, vvhich becauſe they are meerly ſubſervient, and not conſiderable in Church-government, I ſhall onely touch upon them. […] Laſtly, Oſtiaries; vvhich uſed to ring the bells, and open and ſhut the Church-doores.”

“So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.”

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