What is "thurifer"

Usage examples of "thurifer".

You miss the incense, you feel that some noble thurifer should have fumigated him at each stage.

First came the thurifer, swinging his censer with a pleasant near-regular clanking, then the dwarfish lady on her great cat, followed by the two congregants, one fully human and the other possessed of the head and other tokens of the noble dog.

Next came a lay brother bearing a gilt cross, attended by Acolytes and Thurifer, all wearing red cassocks and surplices.

The deacon, in his dalmatic, with acolytes carrying tapers, with thurifer and cross-bearer, all in albs and unicles, went in procession to the pulpit or the rood-loft, to sing this portion of the Gospel.

Matthew to the seventh thurifer, who seemed to regard her as his particular friend.

The seventh thurifer wriggled eel-like through the press of bodies and appeared suddenly close before Elys, gazing up at her with wide-eyed admiration.

Father Radulf arrived at a fast spring, his long robe hitched up to his knees with both hands, the thurifer galloping behind him with his expression a mixture of frightened concern and pleased expectancy, which Aylwin, at any other time, would have been anxious to record in one of his notebooks.

Infirmary, and more water was brought to douse the Cross and the floor around it, while the little thurifer trotted round opening every door to the exterior which the minster possessed.

Penberthy, scattering formalin from a spray, rather like an infernal thurifer at some particularly unwholesome sacrifice.

Behind them came the deacons, and then the acolytes, including no fewer than seven thurifers with their censers, which filled the hall with the scent of their incense.

Immediately within the nave, the crucifer, thurifers and choristers waited, and the latter burst into a joyful psalm as the processed before the priests up the long nave to the parish altar of St Lawrence, set just before the western arch of the crossing.

The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral's nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.

The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral’s nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.

The celebrants began to process: cassocked and sur-pliced thurifer swinging pungent incense, crucifer with black-shrouded processional cross, altar boys bearing glowing silver candlesticks.