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| | WILLIAM CROZIER - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM CROZIER (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | (1855), American artillerist and inventor, born at Carroliton, Carroll county, Ohio, on the 19th of February 1855, was the son of Robert Crozier (1827I 895), chief justice of Kansas in 1863-1866, and a United States senator from that state from December 1873 to February 1874. |
 | | CROZIER, or pastoral staff, one of the insignia of a bishop, and probably derived from the lituus of the Roman augurs. |
 | | The English representative of crocea was crose, later crosse, which, becoming confused with cross (q.v.), was replaced by crozier staff or croziers staff, and then, at the beginning of the 16th century, by crozier (see J. Taylor, Archaeologia, lii., On the Use of the Terms Crosier, Pastoral Staff and Cross). |
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