Incense vs Excite - What's the difference?
incense | excite | Related terms |
To anger or infuriate.
(archaic) To incite, stimulate.
To offer incense to.
To perfume with, or as with, incense.
* Marston
(obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
* Chapman
To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
Incense is a related term of excite.
As verbs the difference between incense and excite
is that incense is to anger or infuriate while excite is .As a noun incense
is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.As an adjective excite is
horny; excited.incense
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Derived terms
* incense boat * incense cedarVerb
- I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
- (Chaucer)
- Incensed with wanton sweetes.
- Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.
excite
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Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
- The political reforms excited unrest among to population.
- There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.