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A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
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Homage; adulation.
verb
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To anger or infuriate.
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I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
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To incite, stimulate.
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To offer incense to.
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To perfume with, or as with, incense.
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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
Examples of incense in a Sentence
The commonest incense in ancient India was probably frankincense.
They continued, and Deidre's attention went to a small shop behind the tents, from which incense drifted.
They probably carried the incense in the sacred bag so frequently seen in their hands and in those also of the common priests.
The censer used was a hemispherical cup or bowl of bronze, supported by a long handle, fashioned at one end like an open hand, in which the bowl was, as it were, held, while the other end within which the pastils of incense were kept was shaped into the hawk's head crowned with a disk, as the symbol of Re.'
Despite her fury and fear, she found his presence oddly calming, like sitting in a spa surrounded by incense with her feet in a salt bath.
The "incense tree" of America is the Icica guianensis, and the "incense wood" of the same continent I.
The Ramayana and Mahabharata afford evidence of the employment of incense by the Hindus, in the worship of the gods and the burning of the dead, from the remotest antiquity.
This is another great way to enjoy resin incense.
One of the most ancient forms of home fragrance is incense.
Now, however, the incense in commonest use in India is benzoin.
The Day of Atonement is the only fast provided in the Law; it is only on this occasion that (a) the Jews are required to " afflict their souls," (b) the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies, (c) the High Priest offers incense before the mercy seat and sprinkles it with blood, and (d) the scapegoat or Azazel is sent away into the wilderness, bearing upon him all the iniquities of the people.
Large cushions and rugs had been flung about and the smell of strong incense or perfume filled the air.
Mmmm, the tempting aroma of fish & chips, the beguiling scents of incense & patchouli oil.
Blessing sorry out of stock A sweet, harmonious incense containing cleansing ingredients like lavender and blessed thistle for spirituality.
Take out your yarrow stalks; light a candle or incense.
They carry all kinds of unique items like "Chucky" dolls, dragon and gargoyle fountains and goblets, vintage style t-shirts with famous rock bands and celebrities, psychedelic lava lamps, incense, and sexy, fun items.
Its fragrance is spicy, balsamic, and sweet, and it is primarily used today in incense and perfumes.
Though the resin is primarily used in incense and perfumery, a number of products make use of the herb's aromatic and therapeutic properties.
Perform a House Cleansing or House Blessing - Burn Sage, incense or candles after someone in your family has been ill, after an argument or any other type of emotional upset.
Burn incense, use soft lighting and complete the ambiance with meditative music playing in the background.
For a great smelling living room, burn scented candles, use an oil burner or incense.
The men's version of Just Me is a blend of lemon zest, bergamot, tangerine, blackcurrant, crushed grass, lime, clove bud, sage, lotus, redwood, patchouli, moss, incense and amber crystal.
Another type of meditation timer uses incense rather than batteries.
Like the other meditation timers, the soft sound will gently ease you back into your day, while enjoying the sweet scent of your favorite incense.
Incense is used by many cultures and civilizations and is recognized to have many special qualities.
The advantage with this type of timer of course is the use of incense which has traditionally been used to time meditations.
If you have a hippie-inspired shop nearby that sells incense, old band t-shirts, and hemp jewelry, check there, too.
Tributes of incense and food offerings are made to family ancestors.
The proprietary Truman Cell electrostatically charges the smaller air particles, and uses dehydration, high-voltage and ionization to kill microbes.Air fresheners, candles and incense only mask the odors in your home.
Moonglow has a huge selection of fragrance oils and each one is clearly labeled as to whether it is safe for soy candles, paraffin candles, body products or incense.
Much has been written about the benefits of incense.
There are many fragrances that help conjure up the feeling of a special Halloween atmosphere, such as herbs and spices, incense, or citrus scents.
From Meroe to Memphis the commonest subject carved or painted in the interiors of the temples is that of some contemporary Phrah or Pharaoh worshipping the presiding deity with oblations of gold and silver vessels, rich vestments, gems, the firstlings of the flock and herd, cakes, fruits, flowers, wine, anointing oil and incense.
The ancient Egyptians used various substances as incense.
In cold weather the Egyptians warm their rooms by placing in them a brazier, "chafing-dish," or "standing-dish," filled with charcoal, whereon incense is burnt; and in hot weather they refresh them by occasionally swinging a hand censer by a chain through them - frankincense, benzoin and aloe wood being.
The monuments of Persepolis and the coins of the Sassanians show that the religious use of incense was as common in ancient Persia as in Babylonia and Assyria.
The Parsees still preserve in western India the pure tradition of the ritual of incense as followed by their race from probably the most ancient times.
The incense sticks and pastils known all over India under the names of ud-buti (" benzoin-light") or aggar-ki-buti (" wood aloes light") are composed of benzoin, wood aloes, sandalwood, rock lichen, patchouli, rose-malloes, talispat (the leaf of Flacourtia Cataphracta of Roxburgh), mastic and sugar-candy or gum.
In their funeral ceremonies, the moment the spirit has fled incense is burnt before the corpse until it is carried out to be buried.
No perfectly satisfactory traces can be found of the use of incense in the ritual of the Christian Church during the first four centuries.'
And less than two centuries afterwards we read an order in one of the capitularies of Hincmar of Reims, to the effect that every priest ought to be provided with a censer and incense.
The character and order of these historical notices of incense would certainly, were there nothing else to be considered, justify the conclusion hitherto generally adopted, that its use was wholly unknown in the worship of the Christian Church before the 5th century.
On the other hand, we know that in the first Christian services held in the catacombs under the city of Rome, incense was burnt as a sanitary fumigation at least.
And the whole argument from analogy is in favour of the presumption of the ceremonial use of incense by the Christians from the first.
The slighting references to it by the Christian fathers are no more an argument against its existence in the primitive church than the similar denunciations by the Jewish prophets of burnt-offerings and sacrifices are any proof that there were no such rites as the offering of incense, and of the blood of bulls and fat of rams, in the worship of the temple at Jerusalem.
There could be no real offence to Christians in the burning of incense.
The Missal of the Roman Church now enjoins incensation before the introit, at the gospel and again at the offertory, and at the elevation, in every high mass; the use of incense also occurs at the exposition of the sacrament, at consecrations of churches and the like, in processions, in the office for the burial of the dead and at the exhibition of relics.
In the Church of England the use of incense was gradually abandoned after the reign of Edward VI., until the ritualistic revival of the present day.
Ram, St John's, Norwich, against the use of incense in the Church of England, the archbishops of Canterbury (Dr Temple) and York (Dr Maclagan) supported the appeal.
Dibdin in the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the exposition given by Sir Lewis Dibdin of the whole question of the use of incense in the Church of England may here be interpolated.