Word Meanings - MONSTRANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

Related words: (words related to MONSTRANCE)

• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• EXPOSTULATOR
  One who expostulates. Lamb.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXPOSTULATE
  To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXPOSITOR
  One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
• CONSECRATION
  The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.
• CONSECRATORY
  Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.
• EXPOSTULATION
  The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
• EXPOSITORY
  Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
• EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO
  From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with
• EXPOSTURE
  Exposure. Shak.
• EXPOSTULATORY
  Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
• CONSECRATER
  Consecrator.
• EXPOSITIVE
  Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• DISCONSECRATE
  To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
• MISCONSECRATION
  Wrong consecration.
• MISEXPOSITION
  Wrong exposition.
• MISCONSECRATE
  To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.
• INEXPOSURE
  A state of not being exposed.
• SUBTRANSPARENT
  Not perfectly transparent.
• UNCONSECRATE
  To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South.