Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To perfume with incense.
- transitive verb To burn incense to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A public rate or tax.
- noun A census; an enumeration.
- noun Condition as to property; rank.
- To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices; burn incense before or about.
- To scatter incense.
- noun Incense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
- intransitive verb To burn or scatter incense.
- noun obsolete A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.
- noun obsolete Condition; rank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To perfume with
incense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perfume especially with a censer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Ohai flyhawk, jus tew fro mai two cense wurf in awn taht subjekt…..frum wat ai cahn tel it taiks kwite a long time for a lol tew wurk its wai frum bean submittid, teh voting paiges, hangin rownd awn teh upcoming paiges an den appering awn teh frunt paige.
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I would definitely pick Blarney Stone over this burger… although the la cense bun is much better than the B.S. bun.
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August 11, 2009 at 3:09 am ahhh ok tath maeks moer cense tu meh neow hoomanz beh doinz awl kins uv funneh stuffs wif teh goggiez naow tehy doinz it tu teh kittehz?
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It is wrong for him to cense the choir, if there be no clergy in quire.
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It is wrong for him to cense the choir, if there be no clergy in quire.
A syllabus of common liturgical errors Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is cense to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case.
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As from May 1 Vodacom is giving away 15 SMS per month to ev - ery customer while MTN offers free calls as a result of the li - cense agreement it has signed with IQ Platform.
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Rimer cared fo r incense no more than he cared for the hips and lips of women, but there was in-cense burning in here now-a woody smell that made Jonas think of court at Gilead, and functions of state in the Great Hall.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Eet is against the law to serve sentient beings without a li-cense.
Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections Asprin, Robert 1987
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Therefore the delight of the critic in the multivalence of Hamlet's madness, or speculation on the motives for the delay in revenge are false problems; Hamlet is under palace arrest, and only by his assumed antic disposition (plan known to Horatio) does he have li - cense to prowl and to spy.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968
fbharjo commented on the word cense
as in incense
February 22, 2010