In Western Europe the office of the ostiary was the lowest grade of the minor clergy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
All the orders except the minor order of ostiary are enumerated by the early African writers. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
In the Roman period all houses of the better class had an ostiarius, or ostiary, whose duties were considered very inferior. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
This is shown by the epitaph of one Ursatius, an ostiary of Trier (Corpus inscr. latin. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
In the purely legendary Acts of St. Lawrence, the ostiary Romanus is transformed into a soldier, and an account in accordance with this statement was inserted in the historical martyrologies and in the present Roman Martyrology, which latter places his feast on 9 August (cf. Duchfourcq, "Les Gesta. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
No, before your corselage rib is decartilaged, that is to mean if you have visceral ptossis, my point is, making allowances for the fads of your weak abdominal wall and your liver asprewl, vinvin, vinvin, or should you feel, in shorts, as though you needed healthy physicking exorcise to flush your kidneys, you understand, and move that twelffinger bowel and threadworm inhibitating it, lassy, and perspire freely, lict your lector in the lobby and why out you go by the ostiary on to the dirt track and skip!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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