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Ostiary

//ˈɒsti.əɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The mouth of a river; an estuary. archaic

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

  2. 2
    someone who guards an entrance wordnet
  3. 3
    One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

    "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."

  4. 4
    the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ostiārius, from ostium (“door, entrance”). See usher, which may be a doublet.

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