incensation

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noun

The offering of incense.

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Meanings

nounincensation (countable and uncountable, plural incensations)

plural incensations

  1. countableuncountableCatholicismThe offering of incense.

    After the third incensation, the censer is given to a priest, vested in surplice, who, till the end of the consecration, continues going around the altar, incensing it on all sides, save when the bishop uses the censer.

    1913, Catholic Encyclopedia/Consecration

Origin

From incense + -ation.

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Chicago

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