Home › Words › C › censivecensivecensive means relating to censive tenure; held in return for the payment of a cens (a feudal rent).EtymologyBorrowed from French censive, from Medieval Latin censivus; compare English census.adjRelating to censive tenure; held in return for the payment of a cens (a feudal rent).nounLand held under censive tenure; a censive holding.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.censual 70% match — Relating to, or containing, a census. vs censive →censal 66% match — Relating to a census. vs censive →censitary 66% match — (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted. vs censive →sensive 63% match — Having sense or sensibility; sensitive or sensory. vs censive →censorial 61% match — Relating to a censor. vs censive →tenemental 60% match — Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. vs censive →feudary 57% match — Held by, or relating to, feudal tenure. vs censive →censuring 57% match — An act of censure. vs censive →