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Posted By: wwh Sunday word - 10/20/02 03:52 PM
Before Saturday night bath became customary, congregations had BO so bad the
priest was proceded by a thurifer swinging a thurible of incense.
Thurible was mentiond a couple times a year ago but not defined by Wordwind.
thurible
n.
ME thoryble < L thuribulum < thus (gen. thuris), frankincense < Gr thyos, incense < thyein: see THYME6 CENSER

And the thurifer was the guy who swung the thurible.

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