incenseとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Noun:
  • enPR: ĭn'sĕns, IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsɛns/
  • Verb:
    • enPR: ĭnsĕns', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛns/
  • 韻: (verb) -ɛns

名詞

incense (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 incenses)

1. A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
2. (figuratively) Homage; adulation.

下位語

• joss stick, incense stick

派生語

• incense boat
• incense cedar

関連する語

• frankincense

動詞

incense (三人称単数 現在形 incenses, 現在分詞 incensing, 過去形および過去分詞形 incensed)

1. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

2. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
3. (transitive) To offer incense to.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, OCLC 1224733829, Act III, scene ii:

     To haue her bound, incenſed with wanton ſweetes, / Her vaines fild hie with heating delicates, / […] / O Ithaca can chaſteſt Penelope hold out.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book または page number):

     Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman, self-styled noble, be incensed,—foolishly fumigated with incense, in Church; as the wont has been.

5. (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

     Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.