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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. It is crook-headed, and See also:borne by bishops and archbishops alike (see PASTORAL STAFF). The,word "crozier" or "crosier" re-presents the O. Fr. crocier, Med. See also:Lat. crociarius, the See also:bearer of the episcopal crook (Med. Lat. crocea, croccia, &c., Fr. croc). 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. T. See also:Taylor, Archaeologia, lii., " On the Use of the Terms Crosier, Pastoral Staff and Cross ").

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