Usage examples (7)

• In Western Europe the office of the ostiary was the lowest grade of the minor clergy.
• All the orders except the minor order of ostiary are enumerated by the early African writers.
• In the Roman period all houses of the better class had an ostiarius, or ostiary, whose duties were considered very inferior.
• According to the statement, of the "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 155) an ostiary named Romanus suffered martyrdom in 258 at the same time as