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cyborium

cyborium is the obsolete spelling of ciborium.

Meaning of ciborium

Noun

ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)

  1. A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
  2. A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
    • Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
    Synonyms:
    pyx

Forms of cyborium

pluralcyboriums
pluralcyboria

Questions about cyborium

What is cyborium the obsolete spelling of?
Cyborium is the obsolete spelling of ciborium.

Words near cyborium in the dictionary

  1. cyborgized
  2. cyborgizes
  3. cyborgizing
  4. cyborglike
  5. cyborgs
  6. cyborium
  7. cybotactic
  8. cybotage
  9. cyboteur
  10. cyboteurs
  11. cybrarian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyborium (page history and authors); ciborium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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