16 May 2018
censer
[sen-ser]
noun
1. a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
Origin of censer
Middle English, Medieval Latin
1200-1250; Middle English < Anglo-French, aphetic variant of ensenser < Medieval Latin incensārium. See incense1, -er2
Can be confused
censer, censor, censure, sensor.
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Examples from the Web for censer
Historical Examples
The censer was made of iron, and was so large one could not clasp it with both arms.
The Chinese Fairy Book
Various
Stole on the winds through the woodland aisles like the breath of a censer.
Poems
William D. Howells
He had a big can of water, which he swung like a censer as he danced.
Despair’s Last Journey
David Christie Murray
He stood in the middle of the room, staring from Venus to altar-cloth, from altar-cloth to censer.
Peak and Prairie
Anna Fuller
This Absolon, that jolif was and gay, Gooth with a sencer ( censer) on the haliday.
The Romance of Names
Ernest Weekley
Or sometimes the incense is lighted and put in the censer by one of the priests employed.
Moon Lore
Timothy Harley
The gods must have their incense from the right kind of censer.
Visions and Revisions
John Cowper Powys
The most elaborate is the censer, which has been already given.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia
George Rawlinson
Their religion stops with the altar and the censer —the material things.
In League with Israel
Annie F. Johnston
Among the uses suggested are those of a censer and a lantern.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume IV
Hubert Howe Bancroft
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