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UK
/θjˈɔːɹəbəl/
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NOUN
- a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)
How To Use thurible In A Sentence
- The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
- From the abrazier (coal pot), pieces of coals were taken and placed in the thurible (a metal censer, suspended from chains, in which incense is burned) which the Archbishop used to incense the marble crosses and the congregation.
- The job we all loved was at Benediction, an evening service where one altar boy was in charge of the thurible.
- The cinema had a magicker who walked the aisle swinging his thurible to keep it cool.. Twitters for 11-1-08
- Monsignor Sacrista received the key from the celebrant, opens the Sepulchre while the Pope places incense in the thurible, and thrice incenses the boat. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
- Milbank demonstrates how Gutierrez, Segundo, and the brothers Boff do nothing more than swing a thurible around the totem of ‘progress’ constructed by liberals and Marxists.
- Leading out of it is the ancient "calefactory," where the fire for the censers and thuribles was preserved. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
- Incense of sandalwood swung from the thurible in his hand, smoking blue over font, chalice, and paten.
- The thurifers stand, genuflect, and carry the thurible and incense into the sacristy.
- The church and Minster of St.Werburgs also would have commissioned him to make various ecclesiastical bronze ware such as Thuribles, Censers etc; possibly even elements to shrines and reliquaries.