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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recensere.
Verb
recense (third-person singular simple present recenses, present participle recensing, simple past and past participle recensed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To review; to revise.
1716, Richard Bentley, chapter 189, in The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., page 506:Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
recense
- inflection of recenser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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Latin
Verb
recēnsē
- second-person singular present active imperative of recēnseō
Spanish
Verb
recense
- inflection of recensar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative