cense

[ sens ]

verb (used with object)

, censed, censing.

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

cense

/ sɛns /

verb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cense¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cense¹

C14: from Old French encenser; see incense ¹

Example Sentences

In collecting these massive amounts of data and all those minute fluctuations, however, CeNSE needs human oversight.

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Peter Hartwell is a distinguished technologist and the lead on HP Labs Central Nervous System for the Earth project (CeNSE).

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The word leve or leave has very much the same signification as the word cense or cess.

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Etymologically the words seem akin, cense being a tax or toll (cess), and tensare meaning to lay under toll or tribute.

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If a fashun kant be maid tu square itself tu the rules ov either good cense or good taist, it aint fashun, it is consait.

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Sentence pour ung pourceaulz execut par justice, admen en la cense de Clermont, et trangl en une fourche les gibez dAvin.

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A procession is made through each house to cense every room.

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