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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ACERRA , in

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ROMAN

Roman antiquity, a small

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box or pot for holding

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INCENSE

incense, as distinct from the turibulum (

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THURIBLE (Lat. thuribulum or turibulum, thus or tus, incense, Gr. Ms, from Ou&av, to offer a burnt sacrifice, cf. Skr. dhuma and Lat. fumus, smoke)

thurible) or censer in which incense was burned . The name was also given by the

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Romans to a little

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ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar placed near the dead, on which incense was offered every

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day till the

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BURIAL

burial . In ecclesiastical Latin the

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TERM

term acerra is still applied to the incense boats used in the Roman

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RITUAL (from Lat. ritus, a custom, especially a religious rite or custom)

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