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CROZIER
, or See also:pastoral See also:staff, one of the insignia of a See also:bishop, and probably derived from the See also:lituus of the See also:Roman See also:augurs
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It is crook-headed, and See also:borne by bishops and archbishops alike (see PASTORAL STAFF)
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The,word "crozier" or "crosier" re-presents the O
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Fr. crocier, Med
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See also:Lat. crociarius, the See also:bearer of the episcopal crook (Med
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Lat. crocea, croccia, &c., Fr. croc)
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The See also:English representative of crocea was See also:Grose, later crosse, which, becoming confused with" See also:cross " (q.v.), was replaced by" crozier-
staff " or ` crozier's staff," and then, at the beginning of the 16th See also:century, by " crozier " (see J
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