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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 thuribleplay

  Familiarity information: THURIFER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THURIFER (noun)


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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