Thesaurus: ostiary

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1. n. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
2. n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
3. n. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
4. n. someone who guards an entrance
5. 1. The mouth of a river; an estuary. [R.] Sir T. Browne. 2. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter. N. Bacon.
6. n the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church n someone who guards an entrance