[f. CENSE v.1 + -ING1.] The burning or offering of incense.
138[?]. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 203. Þis here synsynge and criynge þat men usen now.
1499. Promp. Parv. (Pynson) Censinge, thurificatio.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (1852), 56. Item this same yere [1548], was put downe … the sensyng at Powlles at Wytsontyde.
1608. Bp. Hall, Epist., I. i. 4.
1706. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., II. IV. xx. 333. There were no Censings, nor any Peace given at the Mass.
comb. 1881. Besant & Rice, Chapl. of Fleet, II. x. (1883), 188. Posterity will continue to wave the censing-pot and send up wreaths of spicy smoke.
