censer

English
A censer.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: censor, sensor

Noun

censer (plural censers)

  1. 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, 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.
  2. A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Latin cēnsēre.[1]

Verb

censer

  1. to think that
  2. to esteem
  3. to judge

Conjugation
  • 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
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 – tu – nous vous –
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
  • French: censé

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “censere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 579
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