censer

English

A censer.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
• Homophones: censor, sensor

Noun

censer (plural censers)

1. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:

     A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.

   • 1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe‎^[1], volumes II: Poems and Tales:

     Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.

2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.

Synonyms

• (container): thurible, incense burner

Derived terms

• hill censer

Translations

religious ornamental container for burning incense

• Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕁𐕛𐔰𐕙 (bod'var)
• Arabic: مَبْخَرَة f (mabḵara)

  Egyptian Arabic: مبخرة f (mabḵara)

• Armenian: բուրվառ (hy) (burvaṙ)
• Azerbaijani: buxurdan
• Bulgarian: кади́лница f (kadílnica)
• Catalan: encenser m, peveter m, turíbul m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香爐／香炉 (zh) (xiānglú)

• Coptic: ϣⲟⲩⲣⲏ (šourē)
• Czech: kadidelnice (cs) f
• Danish: røgelseskar n
• Dutch: wierookvat (nl) n
• Finnish: suitsutusastia, kadilo
• French: encensoir (fr) m
• Galician: incensario (gl) m, botafumeiro (gl), turíbulo (gl) m
• Georgian: საცეცხლური (sacecxluri)
• German: Duftrauchbrenner m, Weihrauchfass n, Rauchfass (de) n, Thuribulum (de) n, Turibulum (de) n
• Greek: θυμιατό (el) n (thymiató)

  Ancient: θυμιατήριον n (thumiatḗrion), θυίσκη f (thuískē)

• Gujarati: ધૂપિયું (dhūpiyũ)
• Indonesian: pedupaan (id), wiruk, turibulum
• Italian: turibolo (it), incensiere
• Japanese: 香炉 (ja) (こうろ, kōro)
• Korean: 향로(香爐) (hyangno)
• Latin: tūribulum n
• Macedonian: кади́лница f (kadílnica), ка́дило n (kádilo), ка́ндилка f (kándilka)
• Maltese: ċensier m
• Maori: oko tahu kakara
• Mongolian: бойпор (mn) (bojpor)
• Polish: kadzidło (pl) n, trybularz (pl) m, kadzielnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: turíbulo (pt), incensário (pt)
• Russian: кади́ло (ru) n (kadílo), кури́льница (ru) f (kurílʹnica), кади́льница (ru) f (kadílʹnica)
• Slovene: kadílnica f
• Spanish: incensario (es) m, botafumeiro m, turíbulo (es) m, pebetero (es) m, turífero (es) m
• Tagalog: dupaan, insensaryo
• Ukrainian: кади́ло (uk) n (kadýlo), кади́льниця f (kadýlʹnycja)
• Vietnamese: lư hương (vi)
• Yup'ik: katilaq

person

• Finnish: suitsutaja
• German: Weihrauchschwenker m

See also

• incense boat

Further reading

• censer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “censer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “censer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "censer" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• Screen, scener, scerne, screen, secern

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin cēnsēre.

Verb

censer

1. to think that
2. to esteem
3. to judge

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of censer

infinitive	simple	censer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	censant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		censé
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cense	censes	cense	censons	censez	censent
	imperfect	censois, censoys	censois, censoys	censoit, censoyt	censions, censyons	censiez, censyez	censoient, censoyent
	past historic	censa	censas	censa	censasmes	censastes	censerent
	future	censerai, censeray	censeras	censera	censerons	censerez	censeront
	conditional	censerois, censeroys	censerois, censeroys	censeroit, censeroyt	censerions, censeryons	censeriez, censeryez	censeroient, censeroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cense	censes	cense	censons	censez	censent
	imperfect	censasse	censasses	censast	censassions	censassiez	censassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cense	—	censons	censez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Descendants

• French: censé