thurifer
(ˈθjʊərɪfə(r))
[a. mod.L. thūrifer ‘incense-bearer’, n. use of thūrifer adj., f. thūs, thūr- incense (see thus n.) + -fer bearing. Med.L. had thūriferārius (Du Cange).]
One who carries burning incense in religious ceremonies; = prec.
| 1853 Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. xi. 80 In this procession walked..thurifers with their smoking censers. 1853 Dale tr. Baldeschi's Ceremonial 62 At the proper time the Thurifer should prepare fire in some convenient place. 1871 C. B. Pearson Sarum Sequences Pref. 6 A procession..consisting..of the deacon.., preceded by a thurifer, candle-bearer, and cross-bearer, and the subdeacon. |