cense
Pronunciation Verb

cense (censes, present participle censing; past and past participle censed)

  1. To perfume with incense.
    • The Salii sing and cense his altars round.
    • 1989, Harry Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 205:
      Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.
Translations Noun

cense (plural censes)

  1. (obsolete) A census.
  2. (obsolete) A public rate or tax.
  3. (obsolete) condition; rank



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