Usage examples (4)

• In the Roman period all houses of the better class had an ostiarius, or ostiary, whose duties were considered very inferior.
• Theoretically, the actual ringing of the bells should be performed by the ostiarius and in the conferring of this minor order the cleric is given a bell to ring, but for...
• IX, 133) enumerates the orders of the clergy as ostiarius, fossorius, lector, etc.
• (ostiarius, Lat. ostium, a door.)