Associations to the word «Ostiary»
Wiktionary
OSTIARY, noun. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
OSTIARY, noun. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Dictionary definition
OSTIARY, noun. The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church.
OSTIARY, noun. Someone who guards an entrance.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.