incensation

English

Etymology

incense +‎ -ation

Noun

incensation (countable and uncountable, plural incensations)

(Roman Catholicism) The offering of incense.
- 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia/Consecration:
  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.

References

“incensation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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