ciborium

ciborium [si-bawr-ee-uh m, -bohr-] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural ci·bo·ri·a [si-bawr-ee-uh, -bohr-] /sɪˈbɔr i ə, -ˈboʊr-/.

1. a permanent canopy placed over an altar; baldachin.
2. any container designed to hold the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the Eucharist.
3. Archaic. a severy.

Origin of ciborium 1645–55; Latin: drinking-cup Greek kibṓrion literally, the seed vessel of the Egyptian lotus, which the cup apparently resembled Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for ciborium Historical Examples of ciborium

On the right of the entrance is a ciborium by Mino da Fiesole.

Walks in Rome

Augustus J.C. Hare

The altar was protected by a canopy or ciborium resting on pillars.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4

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The altar was wholly of gold, and its ciborium and the iconastasis were of silver.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4

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Must the ciborium containing particles to be consecrated, be placed not merely on the corporal, but also on the altar stone?

The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865

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What do you think—are the particles in a ciborium, left by inadvertence, outside the corporal during consecration consecrated?

My New Curate

P.A. Sheehan

British Dictionary definitions for ciborium ciborium noun plural -ria (-rɪə) Christianity

1. a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
2. a freestanding canopy fixed over an altar and supported by four pillars

Word Origin for ciborium C17: from Medieval Latin, from Latin: drinking cup, from Greek kibōrion cup-shaped seed vessel of the Egyptian lotus, hence, a cup Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012