Definitions for cense

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Spelling: [sens]
IPA: /sɛns/

Cense is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in cense (ceens).

Definitions for cense

verb (used with object)

  1. to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.

Origin of cense

1300-50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense1

Examples for cense

Etymologically the words seem akin, cense being a tax or toll (cess), and tensare meaning to lay under toll or tribute.

Peter Hartwell is a distinguished technologist and the lead on HP Labs Central Nervous System for the Earth project (cense).

censer is apparently the name applied to one who pays a cense or cess.

In collecting these massive amounts of data and all those minute fluctuations, however, cense needs human oversight.

A procession is made through each house to cense every room.

Word Value for cense
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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