cense
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of cense
1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
Example Sentences
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All week long, the aromatic smell of in cense filled the churches of Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month the commission canceled its recent li cense renewal for Manhattan's WPIXTV.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
They cense with stinking smoke from the soles of old shoes.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
The* breeze* of* morning* | wafted IN cense on the air.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having been enclosed they are censed and covered in, and the cover is anointed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Then the altar is sprinkled seven times or three times with water not mixed with chrism, and the altar-table is washed therewith and censed and wiped with a linen cloth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
After another prayer the ashes are thrice sprinkled with holy water and thrice censed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
But Serge continued: 'I have often thought of the stone-saints that have been censed in their niches for centuries past.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
In the head of the window are angels, those in the two side lights on either side being engaged in censing.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)
Round the head of the archbishop is a gable cusped with censing angels on each side of it.
From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)
Many images in the churches had been destroyed, as superstitious; the censing of those remaining had ceased.
From The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect by Lacey, T. A. (Thomas Alexander)
The recumbent effigy has figures of censing angels at its head.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by White, Gleeson
What means this, signior Deliro? all this censing?
From Every Man out of His Humour by Jonson, Ben
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