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
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
Censer is apparently the name applied to one who pays a cense or cess.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
The* breeze* of* morning* | wafted IN cense on the air.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having censed it carefully, he took a higher throne and divested himself of part of his robes.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
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
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
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
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
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
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 A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
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