Incensed
[in'senst]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Incense
(imp. & p. p.) of Incense
(a.) Angered; enraged.
(a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.
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Examples
- This allusion to the fate of William Rufus, his Relative, at once incensed and alarmed Prince John. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- While I watched, her eyes lifted to me a gaze more reproachful than haughty, more mournful than incensed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Disdain would but have incensed; it was indifference that appeased his rough spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So the party regarded it, and were incensed accordingly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He drew his chair forward; he pushed it back; he looked perfectly incensed, and perfectly helpless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I must now return to Lord Worcester, or rather to my house in town, he having left Portsmouth to join his incensed papa and mamma at Badminton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her ladyship was highly incensed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Near Medina was a castle of Jews, against whom Muhammad was already incensed because of their disrespect for his theology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The duke, much incensed, would have put Somerset under arrest if he had not immediately changed the saddle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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