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INCENSE
incense
(noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned; “incense filled the room”
incense
(noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
infuriate, exasperate, incense
(verb) make furious
cense, incense, thurify
(verb) perfume especially with a censer
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
incense (countable and uncountable, plural incenses)
A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
(figurative) Homage; adulation.
Hyponyms
• joss stick, incense stick
Verb
incense (third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)
(transitive) To anger or infuriate.
(archaic) To incite, stimulate.
(transitive) To offer incense to.
(transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
(obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
Anagrams
• Nicenes
Source: Wiktionary
In*cense", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing.] Etym: [L. incensus, p. p. of incendere; pref. in- in + root of candere to glow. See Candle.]
1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.
2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden. The people are incensed him. Shak.
Syn.
– To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat; fire; instigate.
In"cense, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing.] Etym: [LL. incensare: cf. F. encenser. See Incense, n.]
1. To offer incense to. See Incense. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets." Marston.
In"cense, n. Etym: [OE. encens, F. encens, L. incensum, fr. incensus, p. p. of incendere to burn. See Incense to inflame.]
1. The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. A thick of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11.
2. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon. Lev. x. 1.
3. Also used figuratively. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Gray. Incense tree, the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree.
– Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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