Middle English Dictionary Entry
encenser n.
Entry Info
| Forms | encenser n. Also -our. |
| Etymology | AF encensier, -er. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. censer.
Note: Cp. censer n.
1.
A vessel in which incense is burned; a censer.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.225 : He ordeyned þat no man schulde..doo ensens in þe ensencer [vr. senser].
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.37.16 : Ensensers [WB(2): censeris] of moost clene gold.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Num.4.7 : Thei shulen putte with it the encenseris [WB(2): cenceris].
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)43 : Foure encensours of gold.
- (1450) Lin.DDoc.38/6 : Item, a encensure with a Ship therto, bothe of Syluer.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)62/6 : Tus is a Lateyn word, in Englisch a swete gumme, whech we þrowe in our encenseris.