incense

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Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ĭn'sĕns, IPA: /ˈɪnsɛns/
• Verb:
  • enPR: ĭnsĕns', IPA: /ɪnˈsɛns/

Noun

incense

1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
2. (figurative) Homage; adulation.

Translations

• French: encens
• German: Weihrauch, Räuchwerk (archaic)
• Italian: incenso, olibano
• Portuguese: incenso
• Russian: ла́дан
• Spanish: incienso, sahumerio, sahumo

Verb

incense (incenses, present participle incensing; past and past participle incensed)

1. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

2. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
3. (transitive) To offer incense to.
4. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

   • Incensed with wanton sweetes.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman, self-styled noble, be incensed, — foolishly fumigated with incense, in Church; as the wont has been.

5. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

   • Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.

Translations

• Russian: серди́ть

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