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Definition of Censer

1. Noun. A container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual).

Definition of Censer

1. n. A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

Definition of Censer

1. Noun. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies. ¹

2. Noun. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Censer

1. a vessel for burning incense [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Censer

Literary usage of Censer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To carry the censer the chains are grasped in the hand just under the disc, care being taken to keep the base elevated to a height of six or eight inches ..."

2. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"The right thigh, the hin<;a flesh, and the shume flesh thou shalt wash in the bason, Lay before Bu-ne-ne, light the censer, And make a step toward the ..."

3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"THE GOLDEN censer. A NOTE ON HEBREWS IX. 4. THE writer of the Epistle to the ... But even if it could be shewn that any golden censer was kept in the inner ..."

4. Dresses and decorations of the middle agesby Henry Shaw by Henry Shaw (1843)
"N the ages of Catholicism, the censer, the use of which seems to have been ... Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"In connection with the censer another smaller vessel, called the incense- boat, is used to carry the supply of incense; as its name implies, ..."

6. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine by Thomas Whittemore (1858)
"3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer ... If Golden censer. — The golden censer was for the purpose of incense. ..."

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