Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
- noun Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge, through which water is drawn in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An opening or entrance; a mouth; an os.
- noun In zoology: In sponges, the opening of an incurrent canal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) An opening; a passage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
opening ororifice , as in a bodyorgan orpassage . - noun Any of the small
openings orpores in asponge .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, -- "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?"
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Cúmque pro cultellis nos diligentissimè scrutati fuissent, et nullatenus inuenissent, intrauimus ostium ab Orientale parte: quia nullus ab
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Ad introitum montis habetur capella, et in illa lapis monumenti quem Ioseph de Arimathea obuoluit ad ostium sepulchri est valde magnus, et est ibidem aliqua pars columnæ flagellationis, ac pars mensæ super quam Dominus vltimò cænauit cum Apostolis, et instituit noui Testamenti sacramentum sui venerandi corporis, et sanguinis.
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Et quoniam in toto habitaculo nulla est apertura præter paruum ostium, illustratur accedentibus peregrinis pluribus lampadibus, (quarum ad minus vna coram sepulchro iugiter ardere solet) ingressus.
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Et quodammodo fabulantur Sarraceni, quod illo quandoque ingrediente cellulam, cellulæ ostium mutatum in ianuam valdè patentem, velut ante palatium, et gloriantur hoc primum miraculum.
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Iuxta ostium ad partem mulieris est iterum alia imago cum vbere vaccino, pro mulieribus quæ mungunt vaccas.
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Ante ostium similiter suspendunt filtrum opere polimitario variatum.
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Acceptisque muneribus duxerunt nos ad ordam siue tentorium ipsius, et instructi fuimus, vt ante ostium stationis ter cum sinistro genu inclinaremus, et caueremus attentè ne pedem super limen ostij poneremus.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Socius meus accepit missale et crucem, clericus indutus supercilicio accepit thuribulum: sic accessimus ante dominum eius: et leuauerunt filtrum quod pendebat ante ostium vt nos posset videre.
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In medio ponitur mensa eius prope ostium stationis, super quam apponitur potus in aureis et argenteis vasis.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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