Crossword-Solution: CENSER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Censer | n. | A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CENSER | anagram | CREENS, ENCRES, SCERNE, SCREEN, SECERN |
We have 21 clues for the answer “CENSER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Holy smoker? | 1 answer |
| Vessel for burning perfumes. | 1 answer |
| Thurible | 1 answer |
| Smoking container | 1 answer |
| Scent-producing burner | 1 answer |
| Priest's smoker | 1 answer |
| Priest's item | 1 answer |
| It swings in church | 1 answer |
| Incense pan | 1 answer |
| Incense container | 1 answer |
| Church burner | 1 answer |
| Balsam burner | 1 answer |
| Incense burner | 3 answers |
| Church vessel | 4 answers |
| Bunsen burner relative | 10 answers |
| CEREMONIAL BURNER | 10 answers |
| ALCOHOL BURNER | 10 answers |
| AN ACOLYTE WHO CARRIES A THURIBLE | 10 answers |
| BURNER STARTER | 10 answers |
| BURNER | 18 answers |
| Odour | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CENSER (5)
See Father, what first fruits on Earth are sprung From thy implanted Grace in Man, these Sighs And Prayers, which in this Golden Censer, mixt With Incense, I thy Priest before thee bring, Fruits of more pleasing savour from thy seed Sow’n with contrition in his heart, then those Which his own hand manuring all the Trees Of Paradise could have produc’t, ere fall’n From innocence.
And oh, when stoops on Judah’s path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning, and a shining light! Our harps we left by Babel’s streams, The tyrant’s jest, the Gentile’s scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes, Each in its tether Sleeping safe in the bosom of the plain, Cared-for till cock-crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row! That’s the appropriate country; there, man’s thought, Rarer, intenser, {10} Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer.
And if at the time he paid the penalty exacted by the sordid unimaginative ones who temporarily rule the roast, he must ever after, one feels sure, have carried inside him some of the white gladness of the acolyte who, greatly privileged, has been permitted to swing a censer at the sacring of the very Mass.
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe.
Quotes with CENSER (3)
For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins — duplicity, for example — in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He’d grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit s…
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor." Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!" Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore.
Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, WP.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).