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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Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense..
Wroth :: Wroth (a.) Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense..
Cense :: Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Incensed :: Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incens.
Onycha :: Onycha (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus..
Incensebreathing :: Incensebreathing (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense.
Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
Inflame :: Inflame (v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed..
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume..
Olibanum :: Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
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.
Thuriferous :: Thuriferous (a.) Producing or bearing frankincense.
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..
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.
Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
Incensed :: Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incens.
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes..
Thus :: Thus (n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers..
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..
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