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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Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
Olibanum :: Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
Incense :: Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense..
Incensed :: Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incens.
Thuriferous :: Thuriferous (a.) Producing or bearing frankincense.
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..
Encense :: Encense (n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.
Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense..
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume..
Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
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..
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..
Irate :: Irate (a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.
Onycha :: Onycha (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus..
Censer :: Censer (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
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..
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes..
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.
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..
Cense :: Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
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