"cense" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Backformation from incense",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "censes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censed",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 205",
          "text": "Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perfume with incense."
      ],
      "id": "en-cense-en-verb-c85jV9bG",
      "links": [
        [
          "incense",
          "incense"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kadja",
          "sense": "to perfume with incense",
          "word": "кадя"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to perfume with incense",
          "word": "bewieroken"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to perfume with incense",
          "word": "suitsuttaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to perfume with incense",
          "word": "encenser"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to perfume with incense",
          "word": "incensagar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɛns/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛns"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "sense"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cense"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
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      "args": {
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        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cense"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cense",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "cens"
      },
      "expansion": "French cens",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "-"
      },
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      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Old French cense, French cens, Latin\n census.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "censes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A census."
      ],
      "id": "en-cense-en-noun-FyjwzntC",
      "links": [
        [
          "census",
          "census"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A census."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1626, Francis Bacon, A Certificate to His Majesty […] Touching the Penal Laws",
          "text": "as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A public rate or tax."
      ],
      "id": "en-cense-en-noun-wUbokE7w",
      "links": [
        [
          "public",
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        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "tax",
          "tax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A public rate or tax."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "condition; rank"
      ],
      "id": "en-cense-en-noun-AsKwbvxP",
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        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
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          "rank",
          "rank"
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        "(obsolete) condition; rank"
      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɛns/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛns"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "sense"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cense"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Backformation from incense",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "censes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "censed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 205",
          "text": "Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perfume with incense."
      ],
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        [
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          "incense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/sɛns/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛns"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "sense"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kadja",
      "sense": "to perfume with incense",
      "word": "кадя"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to perfume with incense",
      "word": "bewieroken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to perfume with incense",
      "word": "suitsuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to perfume with incense",
      "word": "encenser"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to perfume with incense",
      "word": "incensagar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cense"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Old French cense, French cens, Latin\n census.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "censes",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A census."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A census."
      ],
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      ],
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          "text": "as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "tax",
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      ],
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        "(obsolete) A public rate or tax."
      ],
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    },
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      ],
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        "condition; rank"
      ],
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        "(obsolete) condition; rank"
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/sɛns/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛns"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "cense"
}