thurification
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English, from Middle French thurification, from Late Latin thurificatio, from Latin thurificatus; equivalent to thus (“incense”) + -ification.
Noun edit
thurification (countable and uncountable, plural thurifications)
- The act, or an instance, of burning incense.
- 1827, Henry Taylor, Isaac Comnenus: a play, page 152:
- They lay [a shield and spear] on the altar, and, with the customary genuflexions and thurifications, pass off.
Further reading edit
- “thurification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.