Meanings of cense in English

Father Lohan would cense the grave of Mother Elizabeth Wallingford and then the graves of the other nuns.

When Charles V. came to England, in 1522, Wolsey again said Mass at St. Paul's, with twenty bishops to cense him.

In a certain cense she pervades the whole material creation, mankind included, in whom she is even sometimes said to "reside."

The recumbent effigy has figures of censing angels at its head.

At either extremity of this panel stands a figure censing the corpse with a circular thurible.

'I have often thought of the stone-saints that have been censed in their niches for centuries past.

They are in great numbers at all the censes of trade in the adjoining countries-atConstantinople, Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Tiflis, Askhabad, and other towns.

'Will that nephew of mine never have finished censing himself?' he asked of La Teuse, who was just coming out of the vestry.