censer
English
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A censer.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: censor, sensor
Noun
censer (plural censers)
- An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 215:
- 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.
- 1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume II: Poems and Tales:
- 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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- A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
Synonyms
- (container): thurible, incense burner
Derived terms
- hill censer
Translations
religious ornamental container for burning incense
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person
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See also
- incense boat
Further reading
censer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “censer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “censer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "censer" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- Screen, scener, scerne, screen, secern