thurifer (redirected from thurifers)

thu·ri·fer  (thr-fr)

n.

An acolyte who carries a thurible.

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[Latin thrifer, incense-bearing : ths, thr-, incense; see thurible + -fer, -fer.]

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Noun

1.

thurifer - an acolyte who carries a thurible 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