censer

English

Censer

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
• 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, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, 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^[1], volumes 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

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), 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)
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• Italian: turibolo (it), incensiere
• Japanese: 香炉 (ja) (こうろ, kōro)
• Korean: 향로 (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
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• 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