CROZIER or PASTORAL STAFF (q.v.), a crook-headed staff conferred on bishops at consecration and on mitred abbots at investiture; probably derived from the lituus of the Roman augurs, and so called from O.Fr. crozier, Med. Lat. crociarius, crook-bearer. The "crook" was formerly called "crozier's staff," afterwards abridged to "crozier" (see J. T. Taylor in Archaeologia,