Definitions for censes

censes cense

Spelling: [sens]
IPA: /sɛns/

Censes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in censes (ceenss).

Definitions for censes

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of censes

1300-50; Middle English, aphetic variant of incense1

Examples for censes

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for censes
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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