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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
- Homophones: censor, sensor
Noun
[edit]censer (plural censers)
- An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:
- A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.
- 1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe[1], volumes II: Poems and Tales:
- Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
- A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
Synonyms
[edit]- (container): thurible, incense burner
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]religious ornamental container for burning incense
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person
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]References
[edit]- “censer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “censer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "censer" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]censer
Conjugation
[edit]- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of censer
infinitive | simple | censer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | censant | |||||
compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past participle | censé | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cense | censes | cense | censons | censez | censent |
imperfect | censois, censoys | censois, censoys | censoit, censoyt | censions, censyons | censiez, censyez | censoient, censoyent | |
past historic | censa | censas | censa | censasmes | censastes | censerent | |
future | censerai, censeray | censeras | censera | censerons | censerez | censeront | |
conditional | censerois, censeroys | censerois, censeroys | censeroit, censeroyt | censerions, censeryons | censeriez, censeryez | censeroient, censeroyent | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cense | censes | cense | censons | censez | censent |
imperfect | censasse | censasses | censast | censassions | censassiez | censassent | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cense | — | censons | censez | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |
Descendants
[edit]- French: censé
References
[edit]- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “censere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 579
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