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.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 281:

     When the folding-doors were on such solemn occasions thrown open, and the new Abbot appeared on the threshold in full-blown dignity, with ring and mitre, and dalmatique and crosier, his hoary standard-bearers and his juvenile dispensers of incense preceding him, and the venerable train of monks behind him, with all besides which could announce the supreme authority to which he was now raised, his appearance was a signal for the magnificent jubilate to rise from the organ and music-loft, and to be joined by the corresponding bursts of Alleluiah from the whole assembled congregation.

2. (figurative) Homage; adulation.

下位語

• joss stick, incense stick

派生語

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. (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; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

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

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (transitive) To anger or infuriate.

   I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

3. (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
4. (transitive) To offer incense to.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 410-413:

     And after this Almachius hastily
     Bad his ministres fecchen openly
     Cecile, so that she mighte in his presence
     Doon sacrifyce, and Iupiter encense.

     And after this, Almachius hastily
     Ordered his ministers to fetch publicly
     Cecile, so that she might in his presence
     Do sacrifice and burn incense to Jupiter.

5. (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, 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 […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (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.

   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 294:

     The priests solemnly incensed the girl who personated the goddess.

アナグラム

• Nicenes

Latin

Participle

incēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of incēnsus

参照

• “incense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• incense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “incense”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “incense”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers