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# incense

«incense» in Mova's school dictionary: **A substance, often made from tree gum, that gives off a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (incense; uncountable); verb (incense, incenses, incensed, incensing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A substance, often made from tree gum, that gives off a sweet-smelling smoke when it is burned, used in worship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#m1)

2) The smoke itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#m2)

3) (verb, stress on -CENSE) To make someone extremely angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In church life incense is burned in many Catholic and Orthodox services; the smoke rising is a sign of prayers going up to God. In the Bible the wise men brought frankincense to baby Jesus. As a verb it shows strong anger in stories: «he was incensed». Phrases: burn incense, incense sticks, be incensed by.

### examples

- The priest swung the incense burner during the service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x1)
- The church smelled of incense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x2)
- The wise men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x3)
- Incense smoke rose slowly towards the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x4)
- She was incensed when someone kicked over her sandcastle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x5)
- The unfair rule incensed the whole class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x6)
- The incense rises in clouds, and the monks chant the funeral hymn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/#x7)

### note

Two pronunciations: noun IN-sense, verb in-SENSE. The verb is strong: incensed means furious. Frankincense is a special kind of incense from trees in Arabia and Africa.

### In the corpora

- [oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.706/)
- [And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.889/)
- [And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.895/)
- [And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.896/)
- [and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.915/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incense» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incense/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.