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語源

Inherited from 中期英語 censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).

発音

• enPR: sĕn′sər
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɛn.sə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
• 韻: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: censor, sensor
• ハイフネーション: cen‧ser

名詞

censer (plural censers)

1. An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.

   Synonyms: incense burner, thurible

   Hypernym: container

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:

     A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.

   • 1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe‎, volumes II: Poems and Tales:

     Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.

2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.

派生語

• hill censer

参考

• incense boat

参照

• “censer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN, page 301, column 1.
• “censer, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 27 December 2006.
• "censer" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Further reading

• “censer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• scener, creens, scerne, secern, Screen, screen

名詞

censer (plural censers)

1. (also figurative) censer (religious ornamental container for burning incense)

語源 2

Compare cense and Medieval Latin censārius.

名詞

censer (plural censers)

1. one who levies or pays a tax

語源 3

Unknown.

名詞

censer (plural censers)

1. bolter, sifter

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