Home › Words › R › recenserecenserecense means to review; to revise.EtymologyBorrowed from Latin recensere.verbTo review; to revise.e.g.“Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate” — 1716, Richard Bentley, chapter 189, in The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., page 506:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).