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

• From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church.
• Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them all.
• Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth.

• thurible

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