0 a container for incense (= a substance that is burned to produce a sweet smell, especially as part of a religious ceremony):
A priest began walking through the congregation swinging a censer.
The drawings show changing styles of prehistoric censers in the Mayan era.
In the temple censers burned, filling the air with fragrant haze.
During the Mass, the litanies and prayers, the censers swinging to and fro and the smell of incense made her feel lightheaded.
The chest contained a silver censer, an ivory and gold cross, two silver candelabra, and two gospel books in gold and silver.
Where kiln furniture such as saggers does appear, it may not be recognized, or it may be evaluated as large, coarseware censers.
These may have functioned as lids for complex censers or braziers.
Seven of the effigies were placed to the south with at least four spiked lidded censers.
