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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1489-1513
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Cens(e, n.1 [ME. cense, cens (14th c.), shortened from encens. See also Sens(e n.] Incense. a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 797.
Scho … it enbawmyt … With aloe, myre and cense c1420 Wynt. i. 884.
Nest lyis the land … we Saba call: In it the cens is gottyn all 1489 Treasurer's Accounts I. 128.
To Patrik Johnson, to the cens 1507–8 Ib. IV. 95.
To the preistis … that brocht the cens and the crucifixt to the King 1513 Doug. vi. iii. 1324.
Gret hepis of cens vpblesit fra hand to hand
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