noun
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An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
definition
A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense
Examples of censer in a Sentence
On the left-hand side in the field a hand issues holding a censer.
I told you that what started those trumpets sounding was the angel taking the censer filled with incense and throwing it on the earth.
Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
Then, the angel fills the censer with fiery coals and hurls them upon the earth.
They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them.
There had already been other schisms on such questions as the right way to swing a censer and the legality of self-immolation for the Lord's sake.
A censer lid with a late Saxon tower upon it, now in the British Museum, dates from the 12th century or earlier.
The censer used was a hemispherical cup or bowl of bronze, supported by a long handle, fashioned at one end like an open hand, in which the bowl was, as it were, held, while the other end within which the pastils of incense were kept was shaped into the hawk's head crowned with a disk, as the symbol of Re.'
The oldest Ordo Romanus, which perhaps takes us back to within a century of Gregory the Great, enjoins that in pontifical masses a subdeacon, with a golden censer, shall go before the bishop as he leaves the secretarium for the choir, and two, with censers, before the deacon gospeller as he proceeds with the gospel to the ambo.
And less than two centuries afterwards we read an order in one of the capitularies of Hincmar of Reims, to the effect that every priest ought to be provided with a censer and incense.
A "Form for the Consecration of a Censer" occurs in Sancroft's Form of Dedication and Consecration of a Church or Chapel (1685).
The censer, to use the more general term, is a vessel which contains burning charcoal on which the aromatic substances to be burned are sprinkled.
The early Jewish portable censer would seem to have been a bowl with a handle, resembling a ladle.
There are very numerous representations on the monuments; in some the censer appears as a small cup or bowl held by a human hand to which a long handle is attached on which is a small box to hold the incense.
In cold weather the Egyptians warm their rooms by placing in them a brazier, "chafing-dish," or "standing-dish," filled with charcoal, whereon incense is burnt; and in hot weather they refresh them by occasionally swinging a hand censer by a chain through them - frankincense, benzoin and aloe wood being.