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cense

American

[sens] / sɛns /

verb (used with object)

censed, censing

to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.

cense British

/ sɛns /

verb

(tr) to burn incense near or before (an altar, shrine, etc)

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Etymology

Origin of cense

1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense ¹

Example Sentences

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Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month the commission canceled its recent li cense renewal for Manhattan's WPIXTV.

From Time Magazine Archive

All week long, the aromatic smell of in cense filled the churches of Rome.

From Time Magazine Archive

He calmly throws the sublimest works of the German nation into the flames, in order to cense his idols with their smoke.

From Thoughts out of Season Part I by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)

When Charles V. came to England, in 1522, Wolsey again said Mass at St. Paul's, with twenty bishops to cense him.

From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by Benham, William

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