Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Angered; enraged.
- adjective (Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.
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- adjective
Enraged ;infuriated ; spitefully or furiouslyangry . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
incense .
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- adjective angered at something unjust or wrong
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Examples
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies with two refineries each in California are financing a campaign to roll back California's landmark laws to slow global warming and promote clean energy innovation, because it would require the refiners to install new emission-control tools.
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the ...
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the ...
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies with two refineries each in California are financing a campaign to roll back California's landmark laws to slow global warming and promote clean energy innovation, because it would require the refiners to install new emission-control tools.
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies with two refineries each in California are financing a campaign to roll back California's landmark laws to slow global warming and promote clean energy innovation, because it would require the refiners to install new emission-control tools.
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the ...
Thomas Friedman On Prop 23: This Is A Fight Worth Having nytimes.com 2010
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Equally incensed is the head of the Palestinian negotiation team, Saeb Erekat, who said on Wednesday that "there are no half-way solutions on the settlements issue."
Jamal Dajani: The Making of a Virtual Palestinian State Jamal Dajani 2010
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Mrs. Handsomebody greatly respected Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Pegg, and this play of words on the name incensed her.
Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920
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He revived but in part, and knowing that his moments were fast passing, he called the incensed captain, and before he had time to speak or strike, poured upon him such a flood of sublime and holy rebuke, rising to the grandeur of prophetic denunciation, and mingled with such melting pathos of entreaty, that the crime-steeped man was overwhelmed and fled from the scene.
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Though industry watchers call it a minor tweak, dropping "G.I." from the name incensed many longtime customers and drastically altered their perceptions about the company's lineup and prices.
arby commented on the word incensed
in·cense
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: in·censed, in·cens·ing, in·cens·es
To cause to be extremely angry; infuriate.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English encensen, from Old French incenser, from Late Latin incnsre, to sacrifice, burn, from Latin incnsus, past participle of incendere, to set on fire.
June 22, 2007
arby commented on the word incensed
Also see incendiary.
June 22, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word incensed
In heraldry, descriptive of panthers and other wild beasts depicted with fire issuing from their mouths and/or eyes.
October 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word incensed
Thanks, hernesheir. The "GNU Webster's 1913" just has "adj. Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes." It makes much more sense to have heraldry as a context.
April 2, 2012