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Cense

//sɛns// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A census. obsolete

    "[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. 2
    A public rate or tax. obsolete

    "as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned"

  3. 3
    condition; rank obsolete

    "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"

Verb
  1. 1
    To perfume with incense.

    "The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round."

  2. 2
    perfume especially with a censer wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Backformation from incense

Etymology 2

Old French cense, French cens, Latin census.

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