cense means to perfume with incense. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
verb
- To perfume with incense.“The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.”
noun
- A census.“[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; […]”
- A public rate or tax.“as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned”
- condition; rank“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”