rare. Also ceropherary. a. = CEROFER [in F. céroferaire.] b. A candlestick, candelabrum [= L. cēroferārium].
[Isidore, Orig., VII. xii. 29. Acolythi Græce, Latine ceroferarii dicuntur, a deportandis cereis, quando legendum est Evangelium, aut sacrificium offerendum.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lxi. (1495), 898. They that serue in chyrches of wexe candyls ben callyd Ceroferarii.]
c. 1650. Fuller is cited by Webster for sense a; sense b is given without quotation in mod. Dicts.
