thurifer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of thurifer
1850–55; < New Latin, noun use of Latin t ( h ) ūrifer incense-bearing, equivalent to t ( h ) ūr- (stem of t ( h ) ūs ) incense + -i- -i- + -fer bearing; see -fer
Example Sentences
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From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise."
From Time Magazine Archive
Clings it round folds of the blanch-amiced clouds, Upwafted by the solemn thurifer, The mighty spirit unknown, That swingeth the slow earth before the embannered Throne?
From Poems by Francis Thompson
The Sun, a contrite thurifer After his garish days, Through lessening arch, a wavy blur, His burnish'd censer sways.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
You miss the incense, you feel that some noble thurifer should have fumigated him at each stage.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
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