Ceased vs Censed - What's the difference?
ceased | censed |
(cease)
(formal) To stop.
(formal) To stop doing (something).
(obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xv. 11
(cense)
(obsolete) To perfume with incense.
* Dryden
(obsolete) A census.
(obsolete) A public rate or tax.
(obsolete) condition; rank
As verbs the difference between ceased and censed
is that ceased is past tense of cease while censed is past tense of cense.ceased
English
Verb
(head)cease
English
Verb
(ceas)- And with that, his twitching ceased .
- And with that, he ceased twitching.
- The poor shall never cease out of the land.
censed
English
Verb
(head)cense
English
Etymology 1
Verb
- The Salii sing and cense his altars round.
Etymology 2
(etyl) cense, (etyl) cens, (etyl) (lena) census.Noun
(en noun)- (Howell)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Ben Jonson)