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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cense1

1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cense1

C14: from Old French encenser; see incense 1
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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