incensive

English

Etymology

incense +‎ -ive

Adjective

incensive (comparative more incensive, superlative most incensive)

  1. Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
    incensive aspects of the soul
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Patience”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
      To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incensive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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