Thurible Definition

tho͝orə-bəl
noun
A censer used in certain ecclesiastical ceremonies or liturgies.
American Heritage

Censer.

Webster's New World

A censer.

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Other Word Forms of Thurible

Noun

Singular:
thurible
Plural:
thuribles

Origin of Thurible

  • Originated 1400-50 from late Middle English turrible, from thoryble, from Latin thÅ«ribulum (“censer"), equivalent to thÅ«s (“incense") (root: thÅ«r-) from Ancient Greek θύος (thuos, “burnt offering") + -bulum (“instrumental suffix").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English thorible from Old French thurible from Latin thūribulum from thūs thūr- incense from alteration of Greek thuos from thūein to sacrifice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thurible Sentence Examples

  • During the mass an acolyte bore the thurible (Ordo VI.) and three assisted at the washing of the hands.

  • According to Sarum and Bangor, the thurible, as well as the lights, attended the Gospel to the lectern.

  • Perhaps the York rubric implies that this was done when it orders (which the others do not) the thurible to be carried round the choir with the Gospel while the Creed was being sung.

  • The thurible, the proper ecclesiastical term for the vessel in the Western Church, is usually spherical in form, though often square or polygonal, containing a small receptacle for the charcoal and covered by a perforated lid; it is carried and swung by three chains, a fourth being attached to the lid, thus allowing it to be raised at intervals for the volume of smoke to be increased.

  • Nobody can swing a thurible as energetically as an Anglo-Catholic Priest, and Father Philip is more energetic than most.

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