ostiary

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.

词形变化

ostiaries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ostiariate

词源

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