INCENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incense mean? 

• INCENSE (noun)
  The noun INCENSE has 2 senses:

1. a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

2. the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned

  Familiarity information: INCENSE used as a noun is rare.

• INCENSE (verb)
  The verb INCENSE has 2 senses:

1. perfume especially with a censer

2. make furious

  Familiarity information: INCENSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("incense" is a kind of...):

chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)

Meronyms (substance of "incense"):

stacte ((Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incense"):

joss stick (a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese)

Derivation:

incense (perfume especially with a censer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The pleasing scent produced when incense is burned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

incense filled the room

Hypernyms ("incense" is a kind of...):

aroma; fragrance; perfume; scent (a distinctive odor that is pleasant)

Derivation:

incense (perfume especially with a censer)

• INCENSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they incense ... he / she / it incenses   
Past simple: incensed   
Past participle: incensed   
-ing form: incensing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perfume especially with a censer

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

cense; incense; thurify

Hypernyms (to "incense" is one way to...):

odorize; odourise; scent (cause to smell or be smelly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

incense (the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned)

incense (a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make furious

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

exasperate; incense; infuriate

Hypernyms (to "incense" is one way to...):

anger (make angry)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will incense him
The performance is likely to incense Sue

 Context examples 

A tree that belongs to the incense tree family.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Dictionary)

Also, it incensed Mr. Higginbotham, who would have preferred the money taking the form of board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A strong-smelling oil taken from the leaves is used in perfumes, incense, detergents, and hair conditioners.

(Patchouli, NCI Dictionary)

Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My friends, then, were still alive, and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed at me for my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by what I heard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The tree’s amber-colored resin is used in incense.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Dictionary)

Look wicked, Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild, shy, provoking smiles; tell me you hate me—tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her ladyship was highly incensed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is—I know it well—it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)