different between cease vs cense

English

Etymology

From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cess? (“leave off”), frequentative of c?d? (“to leave off, go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Verb

cease (third-person singular simple present ceases, present participle ceasing, simple past and past participle ceased)

1. (formal, intransitive) To stop.

   And with that, his twitching ceased.

2. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).

   And with that, he ceased twitching.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish

Synonyms

• (to stop): discontinue, hold, terminate; See also Thesaurus:end or Thesaurus:stop
• (to stop doing): arrest; discontinue; See also Thesaurus:desist
• (to be wanting): desert, lack

Derived terms

• cease and desist
• cease-fire
• ceaseless

Related terms

• cessation

Translations

Noun

cease

1. (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

Anagrams

• escae

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ns/
• Homophone: sense

Etymology 1

Backformation from incense

Verb

cense (third-person singular simple present censes, present participle censing, simple past and past participle censed)

1. To perfume with incense.

   • The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.

   • 1989, Harry Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 205:

     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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Old French cense, French cens, Latin census.

Noun

cense (plural censes)

1. (obsolete) A census.
2. (obsolete) A public rate or tax.
   • 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis

     he took occasion thereby, to make a Cense of all the people

   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, A Certificate to His Majesty […] Touching the Penal Laws

     as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned

3. (obsolete) condition; rank
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

     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

References

cense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• cenes, scene, sence

Latin

Verb

c?ns?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?nse?

Spanish

Verb

cense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of censar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censar.