ACERRA  , in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman antiquity, a small See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box or pot for holding See also:

• INCENSE

incense, as distinct from the turibulum (See also:

• 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 See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans to a little See also:

• 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 See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day till the See also:

• BURIAL

burial . In ecclesiastical Latin the See also:

• TERM

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

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

ritual .