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Ostension

Os*ten"sion\, n. [L. ostensio a showing: cf. F. ostension. See Ostend.] (Eccl.) The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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