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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Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning 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..
Thuriferous :: Thuriferous (a.) Producing or bearing frankincense.
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.
Incensement :: Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement..
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..
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..
Ship :: Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
Thurible :: Thurible (n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services..
Incense :: Incense (n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.
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.
Wrathful :: Wrathful (a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man..
Incense :: Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc..
Incensation :: Incensation (n.) The offering of incense.
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes..
Cense :: Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense..
Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
Encense :: Encense (n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.
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