ostiaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒsti.əɹi/, /ˈɒst͡ʃəɹi/

名詞

ostiary (複数形 ostiaries)

1. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the river of Nilus hath seven ostiaries, that is, by seven channels disburdened itself into the sea

2. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

   Synonym: ostiarius

   • 1647, Nathaniel Bacon, An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England:

     Ostiaries; which used to ring the bells, and open and shut the Church-doors.

   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:

     So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.