cense
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of cense
1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
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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
They cense with stinking smoke from the soles of old shoes.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Saban smoke, their heads with poplar bound- One choir of old, another of the young, To dance, and bear the burthen of the song.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wolsey had always an eye to the emperor's helping him to the papacy; and when Charles V. came to England to visit Henry, in 1522, Wolsey said mass, censed by more than twenty obsequious prelates.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
After the “Te Deum” had been sung, the celebrant, accompanied by his attendants, censed the crèche, to the sound of violins, double-basses, and other instruments.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
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
Afterwards the altar is scraped and cleansed; then the altar-cloths and ornaments having been sprinkled with holy water are placed upon the altar, which is then to be censed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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 T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey
What means this, signior Deliro? all this censing?
From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson
Father Dorward never got through with censing the altar, you bad boy.”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
A serpent is under the feet of the Madonna, who is sitting on a throne; angels censing are on either side without the quatrefoil.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
The other bosses contain angels bearing musical instruments of every known kind, and alternating, more or less regularly, with angels censing and angels bearing emblems of the Passion.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
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