cense

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A census. obsolete
    — [I]n the year 1636, King Charles ſending to the Lord Mayor [of London], to make a ſcrutiny, vvhat number of Roman Catholiques and ſtrangers, there vvere in the City, he took occaſion thereby, to make a Cenſe of all the people; and there vvere of Men, VVomen, and Children, above ſeven hundred thouſand that lived vvithin the Barres of his juriſdiction alone; […]
  2. A public rate or tax. obsolete
    — as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned
  3. condition; rank obsolete
    — 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
动词 v.
  1. To perfume with incense.
    — The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.

词形变化

censes present,singular,third-person censing participle,present censed participle,past censed past censes plural

词源

词源 1
Apheretic form of incense.
词源 2
Old French cense, French cens, Latin census.
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