Definitions for censer

censer cen·ser

Spelling: [sen-ser]
IPA: /ˈsɛn sər/

Censer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in censer (ceenrs).

Definitions for censer

noun

  1. a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.

Origin of censer

1200-50; Middle English Anglo-French, aphetic variant of ensenser Medieval Latin incensārium. See incense1, -er2

Examples for censer

The most elaborate is the censer, which has been already given.

This Absolon, that jolif was and gay, Gooth with a sencer (censer) on the haliday.

Or sometimes the incense is lighted and put in the censer by one of the priests employed.

The gods must have their incense from the right kind of censer.

He stood in the middle of the room, staring from Venus to altar-cloth, from altar-cloth to censer.

Stole on the winds through the woodland aisles like the breath of a censer.

He had a big can of water, which he swung like a censer as he danced.

Among the uses suggested are those of a censer and a lantern.

Their religion stops with the altar and the censer—the material things.

The censer was made of iron, and was so large one could not clasp it with both arms.

Word Value for censer
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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