Pl. -ia. [a. Gr. θῡμιᾱτήριον, f. θῡμιᾶν to burn incense.] A censer, as used by the ancient Greeks, or in the Greek Church.
1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, 406 (ed. 2), 547. Nike making libation…; another such, a thymiaterion in the other hand.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), II. 93. The thymiateria or tall censers.
