different between censed vs cense

English

Verb

censed

1. simple past tense and past participle of cense

Anagrams

• scened

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.