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Word entry · 8 letters

thurible

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"Incense censer"

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈθjʊəɹɪbəl/Part of speech nounSorted behilrtuStarts with TEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)

Word origin

Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English turrible, from thoryble, from Latin thūribulum (“censer”), equivalent to thūs (“incense”) (root: thūr-) (from Ancient Greek θύος (thúos, “burnt offering”)) + -bulum (“instrumental suffix”).

Used in a sentence

  • […] and then Father Conroy handed the thurible to Canon O’Hanlon and he put in the incense and censed the Blessed Sacrament […].
  • 1981, Dennis G. Michno, A Manual for Acolytes, Episcopal Church (Morehouse Publishing), page 55, The celebrant may fill the thurible with incense before the entrance, or may instruct the thurifer to do so.

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