Cense

Quick meaning: Cense is a verb meaning To perfume with incense.

Meaning

To perfume with incense.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A census.
2. (obsolete) A public rate or tax.
3. (obsolete) condition; rank

Example Sentences

The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.

as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned

if you write to a man, whose estate and cense as senses, you are familiar with, you may the bolder (to let a taske to his braine) venter on a knot

Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.

Word Forms

• censes
• censing
• censed

Synonyms for cense

Depending on context, synonyms include incense, thurify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thurify, incense, perfume, incant, embalm, encurse.

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