[a. mod.L. thūrifer ‘incense-bearer,’ sb. use of thūrifer adj., f. thūs, thūr- incense (see THUS sb.) + -fer bearing. Med.L. had thūriferārius (Du Cange).] One who carries burning incense in religious ceremonies; = prec.
1853. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. II. xi. 80. In this procession walked … thurifers with their smoking censers.
1853. Dale, trans. Baldeschi’s Ceremonial, 62. At the proper time the Thurifer should prepare fire in some convenient place.
1871. C. B. Pearson, Sarum Sequences, Pref. 6. A procession … consisting … of the deacon…, preceded by a thurifer, candle-bearer, and cross-bearer, and the subdeacon.
