Dictionary

monstrance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɒnstɹəns/ (UK)
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• /ˈmɑnztɹəns/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English mustraunce, from Old French mostrance, monstrance, from post-classical Latin mōnstrantia, from classical Latin mōnstrāns, present participle of mōnstrāre (“to show”).

Meanings

1. An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.
   • Sir Oswald had done pretty well during the war out of his timber, and there had been no death duties to pay for many years, not since the old man had died. But there was no doubt that the shoe was beginning to pinch. He had been obliged to sell that Spanish monstrance in '30, or was it '31? 1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:
   • He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins. 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 11”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

monstrance bean

Synonyms

ostensory · ostensorium

Translations (22)

ca ostensori (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · fr ostensoir (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · cmn 聖體光 /圣体光 (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · pl monstrancja (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · ca custòdia (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · it ostensorio (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · cy afrlladfa (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · lt monstráncija (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · sk monštrancia (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · pt custódia (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · es custodia (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · sv monstrans (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · ja 聖体顕示台 (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · tl kustodya (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · ga oisteansóir (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · fi monstranssi (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · ko 성광 (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · de Monstranz (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · bg дарохранителница (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · sl monštránca (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · uk монстранція (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration) · cs monstrance (ornamental receptacle in which the consecrated host is placed for Eucharistic adoration)