To perfume or purify something with incense smoke, especially in religious ceremonies.
From Old French 'censer,' derived from Latin 'censere' (to assess or estimate), originally meaning to apply or diffuse, influenced by 'incense' through French ecclesiastical usage.
For thousands of years, incense smoke rising during religious rituals symbolized prayers traveling to heaven—so 'censing' became a beautiful physical metaphor for spiritual communication in churches and temples worldwide.
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