censer
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- 8
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- 10
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Definition of censer
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
“A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.”
“Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.”
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noun
-
An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
“A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.”
“Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.”
- A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).
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