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Censed vs Cessed - What's the difference?

censed | cessed |

As verbs the difference between censed and cessed

is that censed is past tense of cense while cessed is past tense of cess.

censed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cense)

    • cense

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To perfume with incense.
  • * Dryden
    • The Salii sing and cense his altars round.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) cense, (etyl) cens, (etyl) (lena) census.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A census.
  • (obsolete) A public rate or tax.
    • (Howell)
    (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) condition; rank
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

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    cessed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cess)

    • cess

    English

    (wikipedia cess)

    Alternative forms

    * Cess

    Etymology 1

    Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
  • * '>citation
  • (British, Ireland, informal) Luck
  • (obsolete) Bound; measure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .

    Verb

  • (British, Ireland) To levy a .
  • * '>citation
    • Derived terms
    * bad cess
    See also
    * cease * cessation

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning "bog".

    Noun

    (es)
  • (rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
    • Derived terms
    * cess path * cess heave

    See also

    * cesspool * cesspit

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) cesser. See cease.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cease; to neglect.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

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