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Definition of Censers

Censer
Censer Cen"ser, n. [For incenser, fr. OF. encensier, F. encensoir, fr. LL. incensarium, incensorium, fr. L. incensum incense. See Incense, and cf. Incensory.] A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned. Note: The ecclesiastical censer is usually cup-shaped, has a cover pierced with holes, and is hung by chains. The censer bearer swings it to quicken the combustion. Her thoughts are like the fume of frankincense Which from a golden censer forth doth rise. --Spenser.

Meaning of Censers from wikipedia

- incense are then vertically placed into individual censers. The earliest vessels identified as censers date to the mid-fifth to late fourth centuries BCE...
- hill censer or boshanlu (博山爐 "universal mountain censer" or boshan xianglu 博山香爐) is a type of Chinese censer used for burning incense. Hill censers first...
- descending on the censer's ears. In the past, most censers were made of stone or iron. Nowadays, it's rare to find large metal censers from before the ****anese...
- Maurice Censer (also Marcel Censer; 20 September 1889 – 10 December 1956) was a Belgian chess player. Maurice Censer was one of Belgium's leading chess...
- Isidore Censer (14 February 1898 – 23 March 1973) was a Belgian chess player. Isidore Censer was one of Belgium's leading chess players in the late 1920s...
- include censers shaped to look like birds or animals, small "scenting globes" (xiangqiu 香球), and hand-held censers (shoulu 手爐). Very large censers, sometimes...
- poles in place (Numbers 4:13–14). After the rebellion of Korah, the bronze censers that were used by the rebels were converted by Eleazar into broad plates...
- The term is used not only for the censers of ancient Greece, from where the term comes, but also to describe the censers of other peoples of the ancient...
- Jane Turner Censer is a professor emeritus of history and an author in the United States. She was written about Southern women. She wrote a book about...
- A thurible (via Old French from Medieval Latin turibulum) is a metal censer suspended from chains, in which incense is burned during worship services....