英语词汇“thurifer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

thurifer

/ˈθjʊərɪfə

noun

An acolyte carrying a censer in a religious ceremony.If our contemporary thurifer had been a 1950s’ basketball player, my old Irish pastor would have benched him for being a hot dog....

The celebrant and thurifer must have been trained by baton-twirling majorettes, as they were of the school that likes to rotate the thurible through 360 degrees!
It was, and still is, customary for the thurifer then to incense the people in parochial churches.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from late Latin, from Latin thus, thur- 'incense' (from Greek thuos 'sacrifice') + -fer '-bearing'.

单词	thurifer
释义	thurifer /ˈθjʊərɪfə / noun An acolyte carrying a censer in a religious ceremony.If our contemporary thurifer had been a 1950s’ basketball player, my old Irish pastor would have benched him for being a hot dog.... The celebrant and thurifer must have been trained by baton-twirling majorettes, as they were of the school that likes to rotate the thurible through 360 degrees! It was, and still is, customary for the thurifer then to incense the people in parochial churches. Origin Mid 19th century: from late Latin, from Latin thus, thur- 'incense' (from Greek thuos 'sacrifice') + -fer '-bearing'.
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