| 词汇 | censer |
| 释义 | censer noun[ C ] uk /ˈsen.sər/ us /ˈsen.sɚ/ a container for incense(= a substance that is burned to produce a sweet smell, especially as part of a religious ceremony): (用于宗教仪式等的)香炉 A priest began walking through the congregation swinging a censer. 一位牧师开始挥舞着香炉走过会众。 Kattiyaearn/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages 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. She placed a palmful of incense into the censer and lit it. The chest contained a silver censer, an ivory and gold cross, two silver candelabra, and two gospel books in gold and silver. Religious objects ankh brass Calvary chalice clerical collar cross crucifixion crèche dog collar fetish grail graven image kirpan Madonna ofrenda relic rosary voodoo votive candle wafer Examples of censercenser 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. All modeled censers were recovered from contexts that indicate their use atop structure summits in the rear sections of what were likely enclosed rooms. These comparisons indicate that the south concentrations contained greater percentages of slipped ceramics and censers. For one, elaborately modeled image censers and censer stands abruptly ceased to be used, and spiked hourglass and ladle censers were adopted. Vents under the arm and in the open mouth of the singing figure served as the exit holes and smoking "breath" of the censer. The reference would be to white stuccoed non-effigy censers used to burn incense near stelae and then left at their place of use. Non-image and particularly spiked censers were more associated with birth/renewal, earth, rain, and calendrical rituals involving fire drilling. Ferree suggests that this technological change allowed the production of a new "form" of censer that was not technologically possible before this development. One approach to the function or ritual meaning of censers is to examine the complex iconography of their modeled and appliqued embellishments. Complex pronged bowl-and-support censers are composed of a ceramic basal support generally attached to three prongs, upon which a ceramic bowl would rest. Such a symbolic relationship is of unknown origin and duration, but it could help explain the occasional recovery of paired censers in burials. In contrast to the figurines, there is no evidence that long-handle censers were circulated by exchange or any other means. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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