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verb

Incense v. t. (past & past part. incensed; pres. part. incensing)

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. (Obs.) "Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral."

To inflame with anger; to enrage; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden. "The people are incensed him."

Synonyms: To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat; fire; instigate.

Incense v. t. (past & past part. incensed; pres. part. incensing)

To offer incense to. See Incense. (Obs.)

To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets."

adjective

Incensed adj.

Angered; enraged.

(Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

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"Incensed" Quotes from Famous Books

... top of the main building at the College was a statue of Washington, and over this statue some of the students hoisted a palmetto flag. This greatly incensed our president. He tried, for some time, but in vain, to have the flag torn down. When my class went at the usual hour to his room to recite, and before we had taken our seats, he inquired if the flag was still flying. ...

— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... Petronella! methinks a hard lot is hers, Cuthbert. My brother does what he may; yet that is but little, and of late he has not been able so much as to get sight of her. Yet I see not what thou canst do for her. Thy father is even more incensed against thee ...

— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... some one was not pressed to death. On the 9th of July, the multitude was so dense and clamorous that the guards stationed at the entrance of the Mazarin Gardens closed the gate, and refused to admit any more. The crowd became incensed, and flung stones through the railings upon the soldiers. The latter, incensed in their turn, threatened to fire upon the people. At that instant one of them was hit by a stone, and, taking up his piece, he fired into ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

... did not live long to watch the growth of the boy's predilection therein, and there came a day when the crown of Louis III was acquired by his heir, Louis IV. Still quite young, the latter was already affianced to Margaret of Savoy; and this engagement had incensed various nobles of the Rhine, especially the Count of Luzenstein. He was eager that his own house should become affiliated with the Palatinate, and while he knew that there was little hope of frustrating Louis' prospective ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

... religion had done for him. He declared that God had saved him from his sins and had subsequently sanctified him wholly. He even waxed bold enough to tell in meeting how God had healed him of physical ailments in answer to prayer. All this greatly incensed his fellow church-members. They insisted that he had gone crazy and was no longer fit to belong to the church. Accordingly he was put out. Jake took it all in good part and rejoiced that he was counted worthy ...

— The Deacon of Dobbinsville - A Story Based on Actual Happenings • John A. Morrison

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