To set on fire; cause to burn; inflame; kindle.

To make hot or eager; enkindle; incite; stimulate.

In particular To burn as incense; use in burning incense.

To enkindle or excite to anger or other passion; inflame; make angry; provoke.

Synonyms Irritate, Provoke, etc. (see exasperate), offend, anger, chafe, nettle, gall.

To perfume with incense.

To offer incense to; worship; flatter extravagantly.

To burn or offer incense.

noun. Any aromatic material, as certain gums, which exhales perfume during combustion; a mixture of fragrant gums, spices, etc., with gum-resin, compounded for the purpose of producing a sweet odor when burned.

noun. The perfume or scented fumes arising from an odoriferous substance, as frankincense, during combustion; the odor of spices and gums burned as an act of worship in some religious systems.

noun. Any grateful odor, as of flowers; agreeable perfume or fragrance.

noun. Figuratively, gratifying admiration or attention; flattering regard and deference; homage; adulation.

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

noun. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.

noun. Also used figuratively.

noun. the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree.

noun. the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.

transitive verb. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

transitive verb. To inflame with anger; to enrage; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.

transitive verb. To offer incense to. See Incense.

transitive verb. To perfume with, or as with, incense.

noun. A perfume often used in the rites of various religions.

verb. To anger or infuriate.

verb. To incite, stimulate.

verb. make furious

verb. perfume especially with a censer

noun. a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

noun. the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned

"_ On other days there was a certain measure of incense for the golden Altar: on this day there was a greater quantity for both the Altar and the most holy Place, and therefore it is called _much incense_."

african incense  fragrance  

anger  aroma  fragrance  odorize  odourise  

Spence  cents  commence  commonsense  condense  

balm  camphor  candle  cinnamon  cologne  

adulation  agalloch  agape  aggravate  agitate  

incensed  incenses  incensing