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Definition of Incenser
1. n. One who instigates or incites.
Definition of Incenser
1. Noun. One who instigates or incites. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incenser
1. a burner of incense [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incenser
Literary usage of Incenser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Popery: Giving a Full Account of All the Customs of the Priests by Antonio Gavin (1846)
"The incenser has the missal or mass-book ready on the altar's table at the right
corner, and so the priest begins the psalm of the mass: all this while the ..."
2. The Great Red Dragon, Or, The Master-key to Popery by Antonio Gavin (1854)
"notices, ic a sort of carulla, with open sleeves, I »ay, tho incenser puts ...
The incenser has the missal or mass-book ready on t'ie altar's table at the ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1895)
"... and not incenser,—perverter of good language, God confound thee! —Be not your
worship so sour with me, pleaded Sancho, for you know I was not brought up ..."
4. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"Abbreviated from incenser. Censure at one time meant giving an opinion which
might be either good or bad. Its use is now confined to the latter sense. ..."
5. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1891)
"... three towels, three surplices, a rochet, a cross for processions, and another
for the bier, an incenser, a vessel for frankincense, ..."
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