cense
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of cense
1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
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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
All week long, the aromatic smell of in cense filled the churches of Rome.
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 Francis Aiden Hibbert
A procession is made through each house to cense every room.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Wolsey had always an eye to the emperor's helping him to the papacy; and when Charles V. came to England to visit Henry, in 1522, Wolsey said mass, censed by more than twenty obsequious prelates.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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
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
The rest of the arch is filled with censing angels.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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
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
Note the figure of our Lord and censing angels on W. front, as at Chewton.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
The censing of the altar was all right.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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