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noun

(1) A container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)

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Etymology

Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English turrible, from thoryble, from Latin thūribulum (censer), equivalent to thūr- (incense) + -i- + -bulum (instrumental suffix).

Noun

A censer.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
  
  and then Father Conroy handed the thurible to Canon O’Hanlon and he put in the incense and censed the Blessed Sacrament