Definition of incense

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Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

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Incensation :: Incensation (n.) The offering of incense.
Olibene :: Olibene (n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene..
Onycha :: Onycha (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus..
Incense :: Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
Incensebreathing :: Incensebreathing (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense.
Staddle :: Stacte (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax..
Incense :: Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
Incensed :: Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incens.
Pachak :: Pachak (n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients..
Irate :: Irate (a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.
Frankincense :: Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified..
Incensement :: Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement..
Cense :: Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Incense :: Incense (n.) Also used figuratively.
Incense :: Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense..
Incensory :: Incensory (n.) The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible.
Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Altar :: Altar (n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume..
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