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
The* breeze* of* morning* | wafted IN cense on the air.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Saban smoke, their heads with poplar bound- One choir of old, another of the young, To dance, and bear the burthen of the song.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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
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
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
The altar, the book of the gospels, and all cloths are then censed, every pillar is crossed with chrism, while various collects are said and psalms recited.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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
Note the figure of our Lord and censing angels on W. front, as at Chewton.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
Father Dorward never got through with censing the altar, you bad boy.”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
In the head of the window are angels, those in the two side lights on either side being engaged in censing.
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
The censing of the altar was all right.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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