Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
incense . - To instruct; inform; make to understand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To make to understand; to instruct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect To make to
understand ; toinstruct .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aragon his nickname began the concecration it came to me in a flash that this was reminesent of the Jewish temple days when the high priest went alone to the Holy of Holies to offer insense.
Tridentine Mass at St. Rita's Dymphna 2008
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Aragon his nickname began the concecration it came to me in a flash that this was reminesent of the Jewish temple days when the high priest went alone to the Holy of Holies to offer insense.
Archive 2008-05-01 Dymphna 2008
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You are right insense of information but the way this information is managed has to be changed.
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I am burning insense, having a carrot with water and contemplating my options for tonight.
"There is no product on the planet that can match that lush, melted-chocolate mouth-feel of milk chocolate." Ann Althouse 2008
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Let me light up some insense - you've got your love beads...anyone else got a tambourine?
Monday, Monday, So Good To Me Mother Jones RN 2007
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I spent the senior prom at the mall with my bff smoking clove cigarettes, lighting insense cones and setting them out like rafts in the fountains on soda caps.
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I spent the senior prom at the mall with my bff smoking clove cigarettes, lighting insense cones and setting them out like rafts in the fountains on soda caps.
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You can buy small tablets of charcoal for insense burners.
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My reply is: I walked into City Hall not knowing a thing about any councilmember, beyond Bill Rosendahl, who I was going to see to speak to him about the ban on selling insense and shirts on Venice Boardwalk.
What "The People" Are Fighting For This Week At City Hall 2006
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Your heart beats and my thunder prevails from my room of insense and laughter.
eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2002
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