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Cense   Listen
noun
Cense  n.  
1.
A census; also, a public rate or tax. (Obs.)
2.
Condition; rank. (Obs.)


verb
Cense  v. t.  (past & past part. censed; pres. part. censing)  To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. "The Salii sing and cense his altars round."


Cense  v. i.  To burn or scatter incense.





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"Cense" Quotes from Famous Books



... priests, Potitius at their head, In skins of beasts involv'd, the long procession led; Held high the flaming tapers in their hands, As custom had prescrib'd their holy bands; Then with a second course the tables load, And with full chargers offer to the god. 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. The lay records the labors, and the praise, And all th' immortal acts of Hercules: First, how the mighty babe, when swath'd in bands, The serpents ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... hanged vp in a pix / and their Images / vnto which they turne them selues and do make their moste vncleane seruice and sacrifice do proue this true: Neither do they accompte it sufficient to behold theis their Idols when they saye their Masses / but also they so offer vnto them / they cense them / they bowe the knee vnto them: let them nowe denye whilest they will that they do not worship the breade / nor the Images / yet this worship they do them / This kinde of worship (I saye) which is giuen customabilie ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr


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