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cense
/sɛns/
noun 3verb 1
Collocations
1VERB + CENSE
name
Definitions
verb
1
To perfume with incense.
The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.
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.
noun
1
A census.
[I]n the year 1636, King Charles ſending to the Lord Mayor [of London], to make a ſcrutiny, vvhat number of Roman Catholiques and ſtrangers, there vvere in the City, he took occaſion thereby, to make a Cenſe of all the people; and there vvere of Men, VVomen, and Children, above ſeven hundred thouſand that lived vvithin the Barres of his juriſdiction alone; […]
2
A public rate or tax.
as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned
3
condition; rank
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
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — perfume especially with a censer
- incense
- thurify
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.
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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 gen
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[I]n the year 1636, King Charles ſending to the Lord Mayor [of London], to make a ſcrutiny, vvhat number of Roman Catholiques and ſtrangers, there vvere in the City, he took occaſion thereby, to make
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as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned
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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
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