Cens à queste, ou requerable. as Cens à cherchage. Cens rogo. The same. Cens truant. A Cens secke, or dead Cens; a Quit Cens, or Quit rent; of no profit, or aduantage (other than what comes by it selfe) to the Lord, or owner therof. Chef Cens. A chiefe Cens, or chiefe rent. Cher cens. Looke Cens à cher pris. Droict cens. The first, capitall, or chiefe Cens; tearmed so belike, because tis a marke of direct Seignorie. Gros cens. A surcharge of Cens vpon a second grant of land, which by reason thereof stands doubly charged; viz. both with the first Cens, which euer followes it; and with this, which euer exceeds the first; and is proportionable in some respects vnto a Fee-farme rent. Menu cens. The first, capitall, or chiefe Cens; tearmed so because tis commonly payed by pence, and halfe-pence; or exceeds not a verie small proportion. Premier cens; &, pur cens. The same; or, a Quit rent, a chiefe rent; a Cens of Assise.
Censable: com. For which, or to whom, Cens is due; also, which may be charged with Cens. Cense: m. as Cens; also, a generall, and publicke valuation of priuate mens goods, and possessions.
Cense: f. A farme; also, Fee-farme.
Censé: m. ée: f. Reckoned, esteemed, accounted; numbred, mustered, among; also, rated, sessed, taxed, valued, prized.
Censeable: com. For which, or to whom, Cens is due; also, which may be charged with a Cens. Censer. To reckon, esteeme, account among his reuenue; to number, tell, muster; also, to rate, assesse, taxe, value, prize.
Censeur: m. A Censor; or Comptroller; a Master of discipline, reformer of manners, punisher of disorders.
Censier: m. A farmer, or Fee-farmer; one that payes a Quit rent, or chiefe rent for the land he holds; (generally) one that holds by the title of Cens. Censier: m. ere: f. Of Cens; yeelding Cens; or, to whom Cens is due. Iustice censiere. as Iustice Censuelle. Censif: m. An inheritance, or estate in land thats held by Cens; also, the Seigneurie thereof.
Censif: m. iue: f. Censiue; held by the title of Cens; or for which Cens is due.
Censive: f. as Cens; Also, an inheritance held by, or subiect vnto, Cens; also, the title of, or a tenure by, Cens. Censivement. By Cens; by the title of Cens. Censivier. A farmer, or fee-farmer; one that payes a Quit rent, or chiefe rent for the land he holds; (generally) one that holds by the title of Cens. Censorin: m. ine: f. Censor-like, censorious; austere, seuere, controlling, vnpartially correcting.
Censuel: m. elle: f. Censuall; of, or belonging to Cens; held by the title of Cens; whereto Cens is due; in regard whereof Cens is paied.
Iustice censuelle. Base, or low iurisdiction, belonging to a Lord by reason, or for the recouerie, of his Cens, and Censuall rights.
Retraict censuel. Seeke Retraict.
Censure: f. A censure; admonition, animaduersion, reproofe, reprehension (that includes a punishment;) a denouncement, or sentence, of punishment.
La censure tourmente les Pigeons, laissant aller les Corbeaux libres: Prov. Censure tormenteth
Doues, and freeth Rauens (so comes weake innocencie to the blocke, whilest powerfull wickednesse is winked at.)
Censurer. To censure, controll, admonish, reproue with authoritie; to pronounce, or denounce a heauie sentence against (an offendor.)
Cent. A hundred.
Centaure: m. A Centaure; one that is halfe a man, and halfe a horse.
Centaurée. The hearbe Centorie. Centaurée majeur. Great Centorie. Centaurée mineur. Small Centorie, common Centorie. Petite centaurée. The same.
Centeine: f. A hundred; the number, or proportion of a hundred; a Band, or companie of a hundred. Par centeines. By hundreds, hundred by hundred, in great number, many together.
Centenaire: com. Of a hundred, containing the number of a hundred, of a hundred yeares continuance, a hundred yeares old.
Centenier: m. A Centurion, a Captaine, or Commaunder of a hundred souldiors, &c.
Centesimer. To count, or cull out, by hundreds.
Centidoine: f. Centinodie; Knot-grasse, Way-grasse, Birds-tongue, Swines-grasse, Bloud-wort, S. Innocents hearbe.
Centiesme: m. A hundreth; a rate, or proportion, of a hundreth; a bundle, or troupe, containing a hundreth. Droict de centiesme. The hundreth part of a subiects goods, or the value thereof, exacted by some Soueraigne Lords.
Centiesme: com. The hundreth of.
Centine d'une rouë: f. The boxe (or hole) of the naue of a wheele.
Centoire: f. The hearbe Centorie; as Centaurée. Centon: m. A rapsodie; a confused heape, or collection of many different things; a mingle mangle of many matters in one booke.
Centonifique: com. Confusedly heaping, or hudling many seuerall things together; making one worke of many different peeces.
Centre: m. A center; the verie middest, or point in the middest, of any round, or circled thing.
Centurie: f. A centurie, or hundreth of; also, a certaine quantitie of, or measure for, ground, amounting to two hundreth Iugera, or furlongs.
Cep: m. The stocke of a tree, or plant; also, a log, or clog, of wood; such a one as is hung about the neck of a ranging curre. Des ceps. A paire of Stockes for malefactors; also, (but lesse properly) shackles, boults, fetters, &c.
Cepée: f. An hearbe thats verie like vnto Brooke-lime, or water Pimpernell (if it be not the same).
Cependant. Neuerthelesse, yet notwithstanding, yet for all that; Cependant que. The whilest that.
Ceper vne muraille. To vndermine, dig, breake, or cut downe a wall, at the foot.
Cephale: m. The Pollard fish.
Cephaleonomanie. Diuination by an asses head broyled on coles: ¶Rab.
Cephalique: com. Good for the head, curing a diseased head; of, or belonging to, the head.
Veine cephalique. The head Veine; Looke Veine
Cepier: m. A goaler; one that lookes to the stocks; or hath charge of them, or of those that are in them.
