Middle English Dictionary Entry
encensen v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | encensen v.(1) Also in-. |
| Etymology | From encens ; OF encenser, ML incensāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. censen v.
1.
(a) To fumigate (something) with incense; (b) to waft the smoke of incense (upon something).
Associated quotations
a
- c1375(?c1280) SLeg.Advent,etc.(Eg 1993)287 : And þer wiþ wende into þe temple and þt weued ensensede aboute.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.407 : He waiteth or desireth..to goon aboue hym in the weye or kisse pax or been encensed or goon to offrynge biforn his neighebore.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11093 : At hygh feste tymes of þe ȝere þey ensensed þe body.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)42 : Chorees children, with newe senceres ensencen the auters of synne.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)65b/b : Thurificare: to ensensen.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.36/11 : Whane they come to the ympne of oure blessid lady that the Altarys shulde be yncensid.
- a1450 Ordin.Nuns(2) (Vsp A.25)149/31 : And þan cast hali water a-pon hir & encens hir.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)75 : He..worchipid and encensed the ydoles.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)323 : Somme of þise newe ordris hauen costy encenseris to encense beddis of men & of wymmen and to spoyle hem.
- a1486(a1460) Coron.Kings Eng.in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)50 : Whilis that Gloria in excelsis is songyn the kynge shall be encensid of the dekyn.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)20910 : He doth hys dyllygence, With smoke and ffyr hym to encense.
b
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1256/10 : Syr Launcelot with his eyght felowes wente aboute the hors bere, syngyng & redyng many an holy oryson, & frankensens vpon the corps encensed.
2.
To burn or offer incense;--without obj.
Associated quotations
- (c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.395 : They nolde encense ne sacrifise right noght.
- (1421) Doc.N.Convocation in Sur.Soc.113171 : To incense in ye olde lawe and to halowe ye sacrament of ye altare in ye new lawe.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Luke 1.9 : He..entride in to the temple to encense.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)169 : Forto encense to God or to a Seint bifore an auter.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)107.26 (v.2:p.158) : Zachary executid his office .. aftir the consuetude and custome of the preshode, entryng into the temple of our lorde for to encensen [L (cp. Vulg. Luke 1.9): ut incensum poneret].
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)370/424 : Now insence ye and we schal put here in this cave.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)108/4 : Anone encense iii times bifor þat þe signe be made.