cense
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
Origin of cense
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How to use cense in a sentence
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.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertEtymologically the words seem akin, cense being a tax or toll (cess), and tensare meaning to lay under toll or tribute.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertIf a fashun kant be maid tu square itself tu the rules ov either good cense or good taist, it aint fashun, it is consait.
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings | Henry Wheeler Shaw
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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals | Edmund P. EvansA procession is made through each house to cense every room.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan | Clement A. Miles
British Dictionary definitions for cense
/ (sɛns) /
(tr) to burn incense near or before (an altar, shrine, etc)
Origin of cense
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