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Definition of Censing
1. cense [v] - See also: cense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Censing
Literary usage of Censing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... or by censing persons or things ; to mix water with wine ceremonially by doing
it visibly during the office ; to introduce additional prayers; ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... skirl'd Till the soul seem'd swooning into sound, And all creation was whirling
round. Then, in a pause of the dance and glee. The Pipers, censing their ..."
3. The Roman Missal by Catholic Church (1867)
"M the censing of the Altar. MAY the Lord kindle in us the fire of his lore, and
the flame of everlasting charity. ..."
4. A Church Dictionary by Walter Farquhar Hook (1854)
"... sometimes gorgeously adorned: the general subjects, where it is much decorated,
being the Roman soldiers sleeping on the base, and angels censing ..."
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