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单词 cense
释义

cense

/sɛns /
verb [with object] archaic
Ritually perfume (something) with the odour of burning incense.Apart from some postering and hanging banners in the space, the performance began with a solitary priest walking around the space, censing it with myrrh....
  • There was also a small chorus and a number of non-speaking parts, including the butcher who cut up the model hippo and priests who censed the space with myrrh before the performance and moved props.
  • Near the end, as the Eastern Rite bishops were censing the coffin, he found himself weeping. ‘I'm crying,’ he explained to his son, ‘because of what the church isn't.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French encenser.

Rhymes

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