Also incorrectly fumitory. [f. Lat. type *fūmātōrium, f. fūmāre: see next and -ORY.]
† 1. A censer. Obs. rare–1.
c. 1530. in Gutch, Coll. Cur., II. 318. The mending of a Fumitory waving more then it dyd before by d. oz.
2. A place set apart for smoking or fumigating purposes.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Wks. (1730), II. 179. To sot away your time in Mongo’s fumitory among a parcel of old smoak-dry’d cadators.
1842. Fraser’s Mag., XXVI. 361. The great united talent of the age … had alighted … on this great ‘fumatory’ [Manchester].
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, II. v. (1871), 238. We have erected a Fumitory for the more complete cleansing of all that pass this way.
