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incense
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)
- A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
- (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)
- (transitive) To anger or infuriate.
- I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
- (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
- (transitive) To offer incense to.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (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.
- 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent
- (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
Translations
Anagrams
- Nicenes
Latin
Participle
inc?nse
- 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
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exasperate
English
Etymology
From Latin exasper?; ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asper? (“make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???zæsp(?)?e?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, also) IPA(key): /???z??sp??e?t/
- Rhymes: -æsp??e?t
- Hyphenation: ex?as?per?ate
Verb
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
- To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
- And this report
- Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3:
- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 11:
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
- 1987 January 5, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
- 2007 June 4, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
Translations
Adjective
exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)
- (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- Thersites. Do I curse thee?
- Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
- Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, Book 4, p. 177,[2]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
- Sets spinning […]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
Related terms
See also
- exacerbate
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eksaspe?rate/, /e?zaspe?rate/
Verb
exasperate
- adverbial present passive participle of exasperar
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra?.te/, [?ks?äs?p???ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra.te/, [??z?sp?????t??]
Verb
exasper?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of exasper?
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