CROZIER  , or

pastoral staff, one of the insignia of a bishop, and probably derived from the lituus of the Roman augurs . It is crook-headed, and borne by bishops and archbishops alike (see PASTORAL STAFF) . The,word "crozier" or "crosier" re-presents the O . Fr. crocier, Med . Lat. crociarius, the bearer of the episcopal crook (Med . Lat. crocea, croccia, &c., Fr. croc) . The English representative of crocea was Grose, later crosse, which, becoming confused with" cross " (q.v.), was replaced by" crozier- staff " or ` crozier's staff," and then, at the beginning of the 16th century, by " crozier " (see J . T . Taylor, Archaeologia, lii., " On the Use of the Terms Crosier, Pastoral Staff and Cross ") .