Incense vs Olibanum - What's the difference?
incense | olibanum |
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
A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia , formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.
As nouns the difference between incense and olibanum
is that incense is a perfume used in the rites of various religions while olibanum is a gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.As a verb incense
is to anger or infuriate.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.