Definitions for crosier

crosier cro·sier

Spelling: [kroh-zher]
IPA: /ˈkroʊ ʒər/

Crosier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in crosier (ceiorrs).

Definitions for crosier

noun

  1. a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook.
  2. Botany. the circinate young frond of a fern.

Origin of crosier

1350-1400; short for crosier-staff; Middle English crosier staff-bearer Middle French; replacing Middle English crocer Anglo-French. See crosse,

Examples for crosier

In 1048, Wulgate, twelfth Abbot of Croyland, received the crosier and ring from the king.

The mitre and crosier were the emblems of the episcopal office.

The crosier is of silver-gilt, and weighs about seven or eight pounds.

That was called a crosier, Daoud recalled, and was the cardinal's staff of office.

Their insignia of office, the miter and crosier, are familiar to every one.

Gustavus had never before seen a crosier, and asked what it was.

Uncoiling as they grow, they have some likeness to a crosier.

Most of it was green in colour, and St. Patrick wore a mitre and had a crosier in his hand.

Death having despoiled him of his mitre and crosier, drags him away.

On being informed of its name, he then said, "But what is a crosier?"

Word Value for crosier
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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