Definition of ostiary Ostiary
os•ti•ar•y
We found 7 definitions of ostiary from 4 different sources.
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What does ostiary mean?
WordNet
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| ostiary - someone who guards an entrance | ||
| doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper | ||
| guard a position on a basketball team | ||
| commissionaire a uniformed doorman | ||
| night porter a porter on duty during the night | ||
| ostiary - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | ||
| doorkeeper, ostiarius | ||
| clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ostiary (n.)
The mouth of a river; an estuary. - ostiary (n.)
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ostiary
os′ti-ar-i, n. the doorkeeper of a church
