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▪ I. incensed, ppl. a.1|ˈɪnsɛnst| [f. incense v.1 (or n.) + -ed.] Perfumed or accompanied with incense; filled with the smoke of incense.
1611Heywood Gold. Age i. Wks. 1874 I. 13 The Delphian God, Spake from the Incenst Altar. 1812S. Rogers Columbus v. 21 The incensed rites, and choral harmonies. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 131 Again shall banner, cross, and cope gleam thro' the incensed aisle. ▪ II. incensed, ppl. a.2 (ɪnˈsɛnst, poet. ɪnˈsɛnsɪd) [f. incense v.2 + -ed1.] †1. a. lit. Set on fire, kindled. b. fig. (of anger, etc.) Kindled, excited. Obs.
1612Rowlands More Knaues Yet? 27 Whose heauy wrath and iust incensed Ire, Hath sentenc'd me to euerlasting fier. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 213 The coruscation of some incensed Exhalations breaking forth by pauses and intervals form the Clouds. 1694tr. Milton's Lett. State, To Pr. Transilvania May an. 1655, Beseeching him to remove his incens'd Anger from his Subjects. 2. Inflamed with wrath, made angry, enraged.
1594Shakes. Rich III, ii. i. 52 Betweene these swelling wrong incensed Peeres. 1667Milton P.L. v. 847 Hast'n to appease Th' incensed Father, and th' incensed Son, While Pardon may be found in time besought. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 16 He will appear against us as an incensed Judge in the Quarrel of his Father's Authority. 1838Thirlwall Greece xviii. III. 51 To abandon the Samians to the vengeance of their incensed sovereign. 3. Her. Said of an animal depicted with fire issuing from the mouth and ears.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1256/2 The field..charged with so many lions of the first rampants incensed gules. 1882Cussans Her. vi. (ed. 3) 90. Hence inˈcensedness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |