Incense /(?)/
In·cense
Incense
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Incensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing
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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.
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To inflame with anger; to enrage; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
The people are incensed him.
Incense
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Incensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Incensing
- To offer incense to. See Incense. [Obs.]
- To perfume with, or as with, incense.
Incense
n.
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The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
A thick cloud of incense went up.
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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.
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Also used figuratively.
Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.