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incense verb2 trans. Also (earlier) encense. LME.
[Old French incenser, from Latin incens- pa. ppl stem of incendere: see INCENSE noun.]
a. Inflame, excite, (a person with ardent feeling etc.). LME-M17.
b. Inflame, excite, (ardent feeling). L16-E19.
spec. Make angry, enrage; exasperate. L15.
P. Roth It put our Portnoy into a rage, incensed The Temper Tantrum Kid.
Set on fire, kindle; consume with fire, burn. L15-E18.
Incite to some action; urge, instigate. (Foll. by to, to do.) M16-M17.
T. Fuller By which speech he incensed the English to go on with him.
incensement noun (now rare) the fact of being incensed; anger, exasperation: L16.