Incense vs Invent - What's the difference?
incense | invent |
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 design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between incense and invent
is that incense is (obsolete) to set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn while invent is (obsolete) to come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.As verbs the difference between incense and invent
is that incense is to anger or infuriate while invent is to design a new process or mechanism.As a noun incense
is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.incense
English
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.
invent
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Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].