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recensing

recensing is the present participle and gerund of recense.

Meaning of recense

Verb

recense (third-person singular simple present recenses, present participle recensing, simple past and past participle recensed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To review; to revise.
    • Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate1716, Richard Bentley, chapter 189, in The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., page 506

Questions about recensing

What is recensing the present participle and gerund of?
Recensing is the present participle and gerund of recense.

Words near recensing in the dictionary

  1. Recendiz
  2. Recendizes
  3. recense
  4. recensed
  5. recenses
  6. recensing
  7. recension
  8. recensional
  9. recensionist
  10. recensionists
  11. recensions

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