censer, thurible
(noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thurible (plural thuribles)
A censer, especially one hanging on a chain.
Source: Wiktionary
Thu"ri*ble, n. Etym: [L. thuribulum, turibulum, from thus, thuris, or better tus, turis, frankincense, fr. Gr. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Fairholt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
