censer

censer

English

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/

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• Homophones: censor, sensor

Noun

censer (plural censers)

1. 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.

2. 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

Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕁𐕛𐔰𐕙 (bod'var) Arabic: مَبْخَرَة‎ f (mabḵara) Egyptian Arabic: مبخرة‎ f (mabḵara) Armenian: բուրվառ (hy) (burvaṙ) Bulgarian: кади́лница f (kadílnica) Catalan: encenser m, peveter m, turíbul m Chinese: Mandarin: 香爐／香炉 (zh) (xiānglú) Czech: kadidelnice (cs) f Finnish: suitsutusastia, kadilo French: encensoir (fr) m Galician: incensario (gl) m, botafumeiro (gl), turíbulo (gl) m Georgian: საცეცხლური (sacecxluri) German: Duftrauchbrenner m Greek: θυμιατό (el) n (thymiató) Ancient: θυμιατήριον n (thumiatḗrion), θυίσκη f (thuískē) Gujarati: ધૂપિયું (dhūpiyũ) Italian: turibolo (it), incensiere Japanese: 香炉 (ja) (こうろ, kōro) Korean: 향로(香爐) (hyangno) Latin: tūribulum n Maltese: ċensier m Maori: oko tahu kakara Mongolian: бойпор (mn) (bojpor) Polish: kadzidło (pl) n Portuguese: turíbulo (pt), incensário (pt) Russian: кади́ло (ru) n (kadílo), кури́льница (ru) f (kurílʹnica), кади́льница (ru) f (kadílʹnica) Slovene: kadílnica f Spanish: incensario (es) m, botafumeiro m, turíbulo (es) m, pebetero (es) m, turífero (es) m Tagalog: dupaan, insensaryo Ukrainian: кади́ло (uk) n (kadýlo), кади́льниця f (kadýlʹnycja) Vietnamese: lư hương (vi) Yup'ik: katilaq

person

Finnish: suitsutaja German: Weihrauchschwenker m

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