different between incense vs chafe

English

Etymology

From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incend? (“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Cognate with Spanish encender and incienso.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ?n's?ns, IPA^(key): /??ns?ns/
• Verb:
  • enPR: ?ns?ns', IPA^(key): /?n?s?ns/

Noun

incense (countable and uncountable, plural incenses)

1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
2. (figuratively) Homage; adulation.

Hyponyms

• joss stick, incense stick

Derived terms

• incense boat
• incense cedar

Related terms

• frankincense

Translations

Verb

incense (third-person singular simple present incenses, present participle incensing, simple past and past participle incensed)

1. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

2. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
3. (transitive) To offer incense to.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
   • 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent

     Incensed with wanton sweetes.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman, self-styled noble, be incensed, — foolishly fumigated with incense, in Church; as the wont has been.

5. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

Translations

Anagrams

• Nicenes

Latin

Participle

inc?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of inc?nsus

References

• incense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• incense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• incense in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• incense in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?e?f/
• Rhymes: -e?f

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

1. Heat excited by friction.
2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.5:

     Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]

4. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

     When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

Derived terms

• chafen

Translations

Verb

chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)

1. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
2. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
3. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.

4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     made its great boughs chafe together

5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.

6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
   • 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:

     Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy […]

Translations

References

• chafe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Verb

chafe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chafar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chafar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chafar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chafar.