thurible

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The priest came with everything - Missale Romanum, thurible, bells, incense, and FOUR servers and a Master of Ceremonies.

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  1. noun A censer used in certain ecclesiastical ceremonies or liturgies.

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  • Now, when you place that mixture into the thurible, there will be given off a smoke, which is composed of many different kinds of small particles. —  Analog October, 1966
  • The priest came with everything - Missale Romanum, thurible, bells, incense, and FOUR servers and a Master of Ceremonies. —  Sacred Miscellany
  • In the procession I'd have the boys carry the cross and candles and thurible. —  Standing on My Head
  • How the reverends laughed and laughed until one of them brained me with a thurible. —  JohnShore.com
  • They then enter the Sixtine chapel; where, having put incense into the thurible, the Cardinal remains: but the deacon, the subdeacon who carries the cross, and the other ministers go to the Pauline chapel, whence a procession returns in the following order. —  The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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  1. Middle English thorible, from Old French thurible, from Latin thūribulum, from thūs, thūr-, incense, from alteration of Greek thuos, from thūein, to sacrifice.

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  1. from Latin thuribulum, turibulum, a censer, from thus (thur-), tus (tur-), frankincense; cf. Greek θύος, incense, from θύειν, sacrifice; Sanskrit dhūma, Latin fumus, smoke (see fume).
 

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