cense
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of cense
1300–50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense 1
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All week long, the aromatic smell of in cense filled the churches of Rome.
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
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
He calmly throws the sublimest works of the German nation into the flames, in order to cense his idols with their smoke.
From Thoughts out of Season Part I by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the “Te Deum” had been sung, the celebrant, accompanied by his attendants, censed the crèche, to the sound of violins, double-basses, and other instruments.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
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
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
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
Father Dorward never got through with censing the altar, you bad boy.”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
The chasuble has an embroidered cross with figures of Christ and three saints or Apostles, with two little angels censing below the arms, and a quatrefoil in the centre.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
The other bosses contain angels bearing musical instruments of every known kind, and alternating, more or less regularly, with angels censing and angels bearing emblems of the Passion.
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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