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Incensed   /ˈɪnsˌɛnst/   Listen
verb
Incense  v. t.  (past & past part. incensed; pres. part. incensing)  
1.
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."
2.
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)  
1.
To offer incense to. See Incense. (Obs.)
2.
To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets."


adjective
Incensed  adj.  
1.
Angered; enraged.
2.
(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



... exclaimed the boy at the mill, greatly incensed at the boldness of this proposition, glaring at the lean, tender, wistful little face between the rails ...
— The Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... or Nats, who guard the prosperity of Burmah, have become greatly incensed with the Kachyens, not because they failed to resist stoutly when the monarch was deposed ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... certified of the death of the testator. He withstood both the angry gentlemen, who finally departed in a state of great resentment—Harry declaring that the old land-lubber would not believe that he was his own father's son; and Mr. Rivers, no less incensed, that the House of Commons had been insulted in his person, because he did not ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... earth of the sacred square until its consecration is complete. A gentleman told me that he and a friend chanced once to stroll along through the edge, just after the new soil had been laid. A friendly chief saw him and remonstrated, and seemed greatly incensed. He explained that it was done in ignorance. The chief was pacified, but nevertheless caused every spot which had been polluted by their unhallowed steps to be uptorn, ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... But more illustrious made, since he the Head One of our number thus reduced becomes, His laws our laws, all honor to him done Returns our own. Cease then this impious rage, And tempt not these; but hasten to appease Th' incensed Father and th' incensed Son, While pardon may be found, ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various


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