cense
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of cense
1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
Example Sentences
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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
They cense with stinking smoke from the soles of old shoes.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
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
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