cense

American  

[sens] / sɛns /

verb (used with object)

censed, censing

1. to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.

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cense British  

/ sɛns /

verb

1. (tr) to burn incense near or before (an altar, shrine, etc)

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Etymology

Origin of cense

1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense ¹

Example Sentences

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

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

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

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden

In a certain cense she pervades the whole material creation, mankind included, in whom she is even sometimes said to "reside."

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George