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Crosier vs Crosiered - What's the difference?

crosier | crosiered |

As a noun crosier

is a staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.

As an adjective crosiered is

bearing a crosier.

crosier

English

Alternative forms

* crozier

Noun

(en noun)
  • A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • (botany): A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead

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    crosiered

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Bearing a crosier.
    • (Webster 1913)