This Absolon that jolly was and gay Goth with a censor on the holy day Censing the wives of the parish faste And many a lovely loke he on hem caste.
Next he anoints with chrism the twelve internal and twelve external wall-crosses, afterwards perambulating the church thrice inside and outside, censing it.
Then follows the censing and wiping of the altar as in the Sarum order.
Another monument in the north transept has a semicircular arch carved alternately with bosses of foliage and censing angels; and within this a succession of cusps, the spandrels of which have also angels.
The tympanum is sculptured with our Lord in an aureole in the centre, the Betrayal and the Last Supper below, angels censing on either side, and the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin above.
The arch is of two orders, each sculptured with figures of angels worshipping and censing our Lord, who is seated in the tympanum of the arch holding a book and giving His blessing.
The chasuble has an embroidered cross with figures of Christ and three saints or Apostles, with two little angels censing below the arms, and a quatrefoil in the centre.
One of red marble, with a patriarch fully robed, with pallium and mitre, standing on a dragon between a processional cross and a crozier, with censing angels on each side of the head, is that of either Raimondo or Pagano.
The surrounding medallions contain eight angels censing the four beasts and twenty-four elders before the throne, referred to in the Book of Revelations.
The doorway is remarkable; the sculptures represent the Root of Jesse, with Adam and Eve on the west side and the Patriarch Jesse on the other; above it a representation of the Holy Trinity, with censing angels.
The carving is rich and beautiful, especially the famous sculptures of the censing angels, which are best seen from the triforium.
Here is a much mutilated effigy of a bishop, which is of great beauty, especially the figures of censing angels.
The Hereford missal gives no direction for censingthe altar at that time.
York and Hereford ordered no censing at the offertory.
There is not the slightest doubt that the censing of things and persons was first practised as an act of purification, and thus became symbolical of consecration, and finally of the sanctification of the soul.
As he came down the chancel steps Michael's new friend whispered: "The censing of the altar was all right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "censing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
