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▪ I. † cense, n.1 Obs.
Also 4 cens, 4–5 sense, 4–6 sence.
[Shortened form of ME. encens, incense.]
Incense.
a1375Joseph Arim. 290 With sencers..and a viole of sence. 1382Wyclif Song of Sol. iv. 6 The hil of cens [1388 encense]. 14..Masse (Tundale's Vis. 150), iij. kyngis..There offorde golde, sense, and myrrre. c1440Promp. Parv. 66 Cense or incense or rychelle. 1513Douglas æneis iv. viii. 95 On the altaris birnand full of sence The sacrifice scho offerit. 1540Inv. Worcester Priory in Greene Hist. Worcester II. App. 5 A navett to putt cense yn.
▪ II. † cense, n.2 Obs.
Also 6–8 cens, 7 cence.
[a. OF. cense (mod.F. cens):—L. census registration of citizens, property, etc., census, f. censēre to estimate, rate, assess, etc.]
1. A tax or tribute; = census 2.
1524St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 374 The pention and cense, which the Frenche King payd before the warris. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Matt. xvii. 25 The kings of the earth of whom receive they tribute or cense? 1661J. Stephens Procurations 76 A Cense, or Tribute in money payd to the Bishop..from the inferiour Clergie. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind i. 3 Which..yielded no Cens, Rent, or Service in Money. 1763Burn Eccl. Law (1797) III. 120.
2. = census 1, 3.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 316 Mony yeris eftir thare wes na cens, that is to say, estimacioun of men, be thare gudis. 1600Holland Livy i. xlii. 30 He [Servius Tullius] devised and ordained the Cense. 1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) I. i. i. 3/1 In the year 1636..Sir Edward Bromfield then Mayor took occasion..to make a Cense or Computation of the people who were..found to be 700,000.
b. An enumeration or list (of things).
1615Crooke Body of Man 279 In all the Cense of Hereditary diseases.
3. Rating, taken as determining position or rank; ‘rate’; income.
1627Feltham Resolves ii. lii. (1677) 264 More resplendent in their robes, than others of a larger cense. 1636B. Jonson Discov. (1692) 713/1 A man whose estate and cense..you are familiar with. 1650C. Elderfield Tythes 298 A person of cense and possession.
▪ III. cense, v.1|sɛns|
Forms: 4–6 sense, 5 scence, 5–6 sence, 5– cense.
[f. cense n.1 (OF. cense), or shortened (in Eng. or Fr.) from encense, F. encenser.]
1. a. trans. To perfume with odours from burning incense; to burn incense before, offer incense to; esp. by way of worship or honour.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 155 This Absolon..Goth with a senser on the haly day, Sensing the wyves of the parisch fast. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (1835) 49 In the temple..hem to scence bothe clene and pure. 1536Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 59 With..sensers to sense the Kinge and Queene as they rode by them. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 309 b, To cense them with Frankencense. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal i. 17 He was censed in his Cratch by the Wise-men of the East. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xii. 362 The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Saban smoke. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxxvii. 141 Two Slaves kneeling censed my hair, clothes, and handkerchief. 1811H. Martyn in Sargent Life (1881) 289 The priest..at the time of incense censed me four times. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) IV. xvii. 189.
fig.1881E. Purcell in Academy 22 Jan. 56 The reverent adulation with which the authoress censes her she-Ritualist.
b. transf. To fill as with the smoke of incense.
1886Pall Mall G. 7 Sept. 4/2 Clouds waving, dreamily cense the air continually.
2. intr. To burn or offer incense. Cf. censing vbl. n.1, censing ppl. a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 66 Censyn or caste þe sensere, thurifico. c1449Pecock Repr. 169 It is not leeful and expedient that men..cense bifore hem. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 171/2 That they shold sacrefyse and sence tofore the goddes. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 279/1. 1670 Cotton Espernon iii. xii. 617 The man that cens'd at Vespers. 1732Neal Hist. Purit. I. 34 Censing and kneeling before them [images] is allowed.
▪ IV. † cense, v.2 Obs.
[ad. L. censēre to estimate, rate, assess, be of opinion, etc. Cf. cense n.2]
1. trans. To judge, estimate, reckon.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. To Rdr., And most—what but for Nods doe cense Saints, senselesse of more Recompence. 1697Evelyn Numism. ii. 21 The Saracens who likewise are to be censed among the Barbarous.
2. To take a census of, assess.
a1719Addison Evid. Chr. Relig. ii. ii, Augustus Caesar had ordered the whole Empire to be censed or taxed. |