Definitions for incense

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incense in·cense

Spelling: [in-sens]

IPA: /ˈɪn sɛns/

Incense is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in incense (ceeinns).

Definitions for incense

noun

1. an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
2. the perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned.
3. any pleasant perfume or fragrance.
4. homage or adulation.

verb (used with object)

1. to perfume with incense.
2. to burn incense for.
3. to inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn or offer incense.

Origin of incense

1250-1300; Middle English Late Latin incēnsum, literally, something kindled, neuter of incēnsus (past participle of incendere to set on fire), equivalent to incend- (see Examples for incense

I could smell the patchouli oil he was wearing as well as the incense that was burning in the studio.

Frankincense is a kind of incense, which is to say room freshener.

Candles, seashells, incense and a miniature Buddha were among the offerings left on the makeshift altar at the base of the tree.

They spoke to him in a language of love, warm, fragrant as incense.

Every few days he would give me a fresh supply of incense he got directly from India, fragrances I had never before experienced.

He worships every handsome woman, who will allow herself to be polluted by his incense.

No doubt she could evolve a delicious gum from the mesquite and the incense plant.

His nostrils tasted the incense of fresh earth and growing things.

What was the material of the novice habit, what kind of incense did they inhale, what was on the plate at dinner.

Every day some new matter was reported to incense her against me.