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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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onycha
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin onycha.
Noun
onycha (uncountable)
- (obsolete) the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
- (obsolete) The precious stone onyx.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (ónux) standing in the Book of Exodus 30, 34, in the accusative, translating in the Septuaginta Hebrew ????????? (š???le?).
Noun
onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension (Medieval Latin)
- onycha, the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked ritually and medicinally
- Synonyms: unguis od?r?tus, blatta byzant?na, blatta byzantia, opercula cochle?rum
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- onycha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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