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Cense   Listen
noun
Cense  n.  
1.
A census; also, a public rate or tax. (Obs.)
2.
Condition; rank. (Obs.)


verb
Cense  v. t.  (past & past part. censed; pres. part. censing)  To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. "The Salii sing and cense his altars round."


Cense  v. i.  To burn or scatter incense.





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... came to England, in 1522, Wolsey again said Mass at St. Paul's, with twenty bishops to cense him. It was on this occasion that he changed the meeting-place of Convocation from St. Paul's to Westminster, that it might be near his own house. Skelton, the poet, who hated Wolsey, thereupon wrote ...
— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham
... frequent' | Tor'ment torment' Con'flict conflict' | Im'part impart' | Tra'ject traject' Con'serve conserve' | Im'port import' | Trans'fer transfer' Con'sort consort' | Im'press impress' | Trans'port transport' Con'test contest' | Im'print imprint' | Un'dress undress' Con'text context' | In'cense incense' | Up'cast upcast' Con'tract contract' | In'crease increase' | ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... Papa. Papa (Earth). (priest). Luga. "Paper of Pins." Para. Paradise. Lost. visited. Parca. Parent. Parent-finger. Parental affection. Parentalia. Parents' answers. lies. minds. Parsley. Parties. Partition of land. Partula. Parvus. Pater. cense. familias. patratus. patriae. Patres. Patria. Patria potestas. Patriarch. Patrician. Patrimony. Patriotism. [Greek: patris]. Patrius sermo. Patron. Peacock. "Pearl grass." Pearls. Pebbles. Pedagogy (Primitive). of play. Peevish. Pelican. Pennalism. Peunou. ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... not be wanting." Then she stopped at a perfumer's and took from him ten sorts of waters, rose scented with musk, grange Lower, waterlily, willow flower, violet and five others; and she also bought two loaves of sugar, a bottle for perfume spraying, a lump of male in cense, aloe wood, ambergris and musk, with candles of Alex' andria wax; and she put the whole into the basket, saying, "Up with thy crate and after me." He did so and followed until she stood before the greengrocer's, of whom she bought pickled safflower and olives, in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton


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