monstrance

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The swarming stars seem to be lost, to lie in dim faraway depths; and the trail of fire is in form like a monstrance--yes, a real monstrance, the base of which is outlined by the inclined ways, the stem by the two parallel paths, and the Host by the round lawn which crowns them.

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church A receptacle in which the host is held. Also called ostensorium.

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  • He lifts the chalice and nods at the monstrance: A little better, anyway. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • They were all the blood family I thought I had left to me, so I didn't think I'd ever have a monstrance or a reduction shrine in my home. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • The only ‘ideal’ candidates out there, strictly from the perspective of making a successful migrating into a monstrance, are crazy people, psychotics, people already lost inside their own heads Huh. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • For instance, shopping for the monstrance was interesting. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • After he finished speaking, Benedict knelt for a few moments of silent prayer before a monstrance, a container which exposes the consecrated host for adoration by the faithful. —  National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe -
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mōnstrantia, from Latin mōnstrāns, mōnstrant-, present participle of mōnstrāre, to show, from mōnstrum, portent, monster; see monster.

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  1. from Old French monstrance = Italian mostranza, from Middle Latin monstrantia, a monstrance, from Latin monstran(t-)s, present participle of monstrare, show: see monster, v., monstration, and cf. mustrance.
 

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