Incense

Definitions

1. Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
   countable, uncountable
2. The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
   countable, uncountable
3. Homage; adulation.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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