Verb

To anger or infuriate.

I think it would incense him to learn the truth.

(archaic) To incite, stimulate.

To offer incense to.

(Chaucer)

To perfume with, or as with, incense.

* Marston

Incensed with wanton sweetes.

(obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

* Chapman

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

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

* Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

* Evelyn

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them