Definitions for crosiers

crosiers cro·sier

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

Crosiers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in crosiers (ceiorrss).

Definitions for crosiers

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 crosiers

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

Examples for crosiers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for crosiers
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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