Incense

Definition: Incense

Incense

Noun

1. A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.

2. The pleasing scent produced when incense is burned; "incense filled the room".

Verb

1. Perfume esp. with a censer.

2. Make furious.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Bible

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Synonyms: Incense

Flattery

Incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water.

Fuel

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Hate

Excite hatred, provoke hatred; Noun: be hateful; Adjective: stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil.

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Rite

Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion.

Worship

Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory.

Crosswords: Incense

Italian (incense).

Robin's burning incense. I think it smells nice (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

You wear incense to scare away evil spirits (Flower Drum Song; writing credit: Joseph Fields)

I can't stand the smell of incense (I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Incense for the Damned (1972)

The Land of Honey and Incense (1987)

Incense and Peppermints (1981)

Incense and Peppermints (performing artist: Strawberry Alarm Clock)

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Books

• Little Box of Inner Calm: Everything You Need for a Journey Toward Spiritual Awareness and Finding Your Inner-Life: Incense Cones, Bell, Glass beads (reference)

• Magic with Incense and Powders (reference)

• Magick Potions: How to Prepare and Use Homemade Incense, Oils, Aphordisacs, and Much More (reference)

• Sachets, Potpourri and Incense Recipes, Etc. (reference)

• The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Incense and Peppermints [Collection] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Incense pan made of bronze; work done by the sculptor Dsanabadsar; XVIIth century. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frederick G. Necker, business at 3410 Broadway, New York City. Incense group. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind

To fly the boar before the boar pursues Were to incense the boar to follow us And make pursuit where he did mean no chase

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Worker Rights

China

However, while Tibetans burned incense and celebrated Sagadawa by making the lingkor (a pilgrimage circuit around the religious sites of Lhasa), restrictions and bans on celebrating other important religious holidays continued. (references)

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That makes the incense to fume

Incense

Expressions using "incense": burn incense ♦ incense burner ♦ incense cedar ♦ incense cedar rust ♦ incense tree ♦ incense wood. Additional references.

Beginning with "incense": incense-bearing, incense-braziers, Incense-breathing, incense-burner, incense-burning, incense-clocks, incense-fragrant, incense-heavy, incense-laden, incense-sticks, Incense-tree.

Ending with "incense": victory-incense.

Albanian

zemëroj (anger, annoy, enrage, fret, huff, irritate, offend, provoke, vex), thimjam, temjan (frankincense), aromë (aroma, balm, essence, Flavor, flavour, fragrance, fragrancy, odor, odour, perfume, redolence, savor, savour, scent, waft). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, embitter, fret, gall, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏عبق البخور, ‏أسخط (enrage, exasperate, irritate, rub), ‏رائحة ذكية, ‏بخور. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдя (displease, fuss, vex), разярявам (enrage), тамян (frankincense), кадя тамян, кадене на тамян, вбесявам (aggravate, enrage, exasperate, infuriate, mad, madden, tease), лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, cajole, carny, coax, flatter, jolly, palaver, sawder, soap, soft soap, sugar), прекадявам. (various references)

Chinese 

香火, 香氣 , 香 (appetizing, fragrant, popular, savory, scented, sweet). (various references)

Czech

rozèilit (disturb, excite, madden, spite), popudit (irritate, nettle, pique, provoke), pobouřit (move, put out, rouse, stir up, work up), kadidlo. (various references)

Danish

roegelsesskaal (incense burner). (various references)

Dutch

wierook (frankincense, olibanum). (various references)

Esperanto

incenso. (various references)

Faeroese

roykilsi. (various references)

Farsi 

تهییج کردن (Motivate, Stimulate, Whet), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), سوزاندن (Blast, Burn, Cauterize, Fry, Incinerate, Scorch, Sear), خشمگین کردن (Aggravate, Anger, Annoy, Enrage, Ensnare, Exasperate, Irritate, Provoke, Tar, Vex), بخورخوشبو, بخوردادن به . (various references)

Finnish

suitsutus. (various references)

French

mettre en fureur (infuriate), mettre en colère, exaspérer (infuriate), encens, courroucer. (various references)

German

Weihrauch (frankincense). (various references)

Greek 

λιβάνι (frankincense), θυμίαμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

להעלות חמה, להכעיס (anger, enrage, nettle, spite), להרגיז (aggravate, annoy, displease, enrage, madden, miff, molest, needle, offend, peeve, provoke, rile, ruffle, spite, vex), לבונה (frankincense), קטורת (fume). (various references)

Hungarian

tömjén (frankincense). (various references)

Indonesian

kemenyan (benzoin), dupa. (various references)

Italian

incenso (frankincense), incense, incensare, odore d'incenso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薫香 (fragrance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くんこう (distinguished services, fragrance, merits), まっこう (brow, front, helmet front, incense powder, the last paragraph), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), インセンス . (various references)

Korean 

향. (various references)

Manx

thooishey (cense), thooish, fargaghey, brasney (gall, smash, spur), brasnaghey (affront, aggravation, bait, incite, irritate; incitement, provocation, rev, spur, to provoke). (various references)

Norwegian

røkelse, hisse opp, gjøre rasende (enrage, infuriate). (various references)

Pig Latin

incenseay.(various references)

Portuguese

incenso (frankincense). (various references)

Romanian

tãmâios (frankincense, scented), tãmâie (flattery, thick), tãmâia (cense, flatter, fumigate, give smb. butter, sing the praises of, soap), parfuma (aromatize, embalm, perfume, scent, sweeten). (various references)

Russian 

сердить (anger, disgruntle, displease, provoke, rile, vex), разгневать ладан, фимиам, ладан (frankincense). (various references)

Scottish

tùis. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tamjan (frankincense), razjariti (enrage, infuriate). (various references)

Spanish

incienso (frankincense). (various references)

Swedish

rökelse (frankincense). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้โกรธจัด, กำยาน (gum benzoin), จุดธูปบูชา. (various references)

Turkish

yağlamak (anoint, baste, grease, lubricate, oil, slush), yağlama (anointment, fattening, greasing, lubrication), tütsülemek (bloat, cense, fume, fumigate, kipper, smoke, stove), tütsü yakmak, tütsü kokusu, tütsü (fume, fumigant, fumigation), sinirlendirmek (aggravate, anger, annoy, bugger, disconcert, exacerbate, fret, get smb.'s dander up, get smb.'s shirt out, give the willies, grate, irritate, jangle smb.'s nerves, make angry, needle, put smb. out of temper, rile, rough the wrong way, ruffle smb.'s temper, stimulate, string up, unnerve, unstring), pohpohlamak (adulate, butter up, flatter, lay it on, lay it on thickly, lay it on with a trowel, palaver, sweet talk), pohpohlama (adulation, flattery, palaver, rose water, soft soap, sugarplum), kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), buhur (frankincense), çileden çıkarmak (aggravate, enrage, infuriate). (various references)

Ukrainian

фіміам, кадити (fumigate), вихваляти (aggrandize, allow, belaud, bepraise, eulogize, glamorize, glamourize, magnify, panegyrize, talk up, vaunt), вихваляння (aggrandizement, dithyramb, encomium, gasconade, glorification, magnification, swank), викликати гнів, ладан (frankincense, olibanum, thus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhang, lời tâng bốc, lời tán tụng (praise, soft sawder), hương. (various references)

Welsh

arogl-darth. (various references)

1. na. (various references)

incendas, incendat, incendatur, incendebant, incendens, incendent, incenderant, incendere, incenderent, incenderit, incenderunt, incendes, incendet, incendetque, incendetur, incendimus, incendit, incenditur, incensa, incensae, incensi, incensio, incenso, incensorum, incensu, incensum, incensumque, thymiama, thymiamatis. (various references)

urvâsnayå. (various references)

incensus. (various references)

encens. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "incense": incensed, incenses. (additional references)

Words ending with "incense": frankincense. (additional references)

Words containing "incense": frankincenses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Incense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bianconese, incence, incennse, incente, Inconnue, inconve, inese, inmense, inocense, inscense, invense, nicens. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nieces.

-2 letters: cense, cines, nenes, niece, nines, scene, seine, since.

-3 letters: cees, cine, ices, inns, nene, nice, nine, seen, sene, sice, sine.

-4 letters: cee, cis, ens, ice, inn, ins, nee, sec, see, sei, sen, sic, sin.

-5 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si.

+1 letter: incensed, incenses, nescient, niceness.

+2 letters: canneries, consignee, eminences, enceintes, ignescent, incenters, insincere, insolence, leniences, narceines, necklines, nescience, nescients, pinecones, recension, screening, secerning, sentience, syngeneic, tenancies.

+3 letters: abstinence, ancientest, celandines, conominees, conscience, consignees, decennials, decenniums, declension, descending, descension, eminencies, endocrines, ensigncies, enunciates, evanescing, fescennine, immanences, imminences, incandesce, incentives, incidences, increments, increscent, indigences, indolences, inferences, influences, inherences, innocences, insistence, insolences, insurgence, intrenches, leniencies, nascencies, nectarines, nesciences, nicenesses, nonscience, pendencies, penitences, pungencies, recensions, refinances, regnancies, screenings, sentencing, sentiences, sequencing, tangencies, tendencies, transience, unlicensed, windscreen.