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

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad