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THURIFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thurifer mean?
• THURIFER (noun)
The noun THURIFER has 1 sense:
1. an acolyte who carries a thurible
Familiarity information: THURIFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acolyte who carries a thurible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("thurifer" is a kind of...):
acolyte (someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches)
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