osteopsathyrosis (os"teopsathirosis)

[NL., IMG:content-1911.png:[blocks in formation] of ostiary is the lowest of the minor orders in the Western Church. It is as old as the third century in the Western Church, and as the fourth century in the Eastern Church. In the primitive church the duties of this office seem to have been discharged by deacons. The office of an acolouthite, of an exorcist, of an ostiary , are no way dependent on the office of a deacon. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 194. cean.