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
In a certain cense she pervades the whole material creation, mankind included, in whom she is even sometimes said to "reside."
“Chensers,” he says again, “are such as pay Tribute or cense, Chief-rent or Quit-rent, for so the French censier signifies.”
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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 Émile Zola
Note the figure of our Lord and censing angels on W. front, as at Chewton.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
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 Gleeson White
In the central light is the Agnus Dei; while in the other six encircling quatrefoils are angels censing, and representing Blessing, Glory, Honour, Power, Wisdom and Strength.
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
What means this, signior Deliro? all this censing?
From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson
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
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