Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incensed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incensed \In*censed"\, a.
1. Angered; enraged.
2. (Her.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature
depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incense \In"cense\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incensed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Incensing}.] [LL. incensare: cf. F. encenser. See
{Incense}, n.]
1. To offer incense to. See {Incense}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. To perfume with, or as with, incense. ``Incensed with
wanton sweets.'' --Marston.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incense \In*cense"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incensed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Incensing}.] [L. incensus, p. p. of incendere; pref.
in- in + root of candere to glow. See {Candle}.]
1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.]
Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to
incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. --Chapman.
2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite;
to provoke; to heat; to madden.
The people are incensed him. --Shak.
Syn: To enrage; exasperate; provoke; anger; irritate; heat;
fire; instigate.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
incensed
adj : angered at something unjust or wrong; "an indignant denial";
"incensed at the judges' unfairness"; "a look of
outraged disbelief"; "umbrageous at the loss of their
territory" [syn: {indignant}, {outraged}, {umbrageous}]
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