censer

Censer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛn.sə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
• Homophones: censor, sensor

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from encensier, from encens (“incense”)

Noun

censer (plural censers)

1. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense

Synonyms

• thurible

Translations

religious ornamental container for burning incense

Arabic: مبخرة (ar) (mabxarh) f. Egyptian Arabic: مبخرة (mabxara) f. Armenian: բուրվառ (burvaṙ) Bulgarian: кадилница (bg) f. Czech: kadidelnice (cs) f. Finnish: suitsutusastia (fi), kadilo (fi) French: encensoir (fr)

German: Duftrauchbrenner (de) m. Italian: turibolo (it), incensiere (it) Polish: kadzidło (pl) n. Portuguese: turíbulo (pt), incensário (pt) Russian: кадило (ru) (kadílo) n. Spanish: incensario (es) m., botafumeiro (es) m.

See also

• Censer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “censer” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “censer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "censer" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

Anagrams

• scener
• screen