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Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈmɒnstɹəns/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈmɑnztɹəns/
KieliKäännökset
italiaostensorio
portugalicustódia
puolamonstrancja
ranskaostensoir
saksaMonstranz

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (Christianity) An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.

Esimerkit

  • He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins.
  • Sir Oswald had done pretty well during the war out of his timber, and there had been no death duties to pay for many years, not since the old man had died. But there was no doubt that the shoe was beginning to pinch. He had been obliged to sell that Spanish monstrance in '30, or was it '31?

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkomonstrances

(Christianity) An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.

A traditional "solar" monstrance

(Christianity) An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.

The Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance carried in a procession by a priest wearing a humeral veil

(Christianity) An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.

Two monstrances, showing the contrast between the modern simplified design on the right with its more ornate predecessor on the left