- Look up
incense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Incense is an
aromatic biotic material that
releases fragrant smoke when burnt. The term is used for...
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French from
Medieval Latin turibulum) is a
metal incense burner suspended from chains, in
which incense is
burned during worship services. It is used in...
- The
incense offering (Hebrew: קְטֹרֶת qəṭōreṯ) in
Judaism was
related to
perfumed offerings on the
altar of
incense in the time of the
Tabernacle and...
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Calocedrus decurrens, with the
common names incense cedar and
California incense cedar (syn.
Libocedrus decurrens Torr.), is a
species of
coniferous tree...
- A censer,
incense burner,
perfume burner or
pastille burner is a
vessel made for
burning incense or
perfume in some
solid form. They vary
greatly in size...
- Calocedrus, the
incense cedar (alternatively
spelled incense-cedar), is a
genus of
coniferous trees in the
cypress family Cupressaceae first described...
- The
incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟;
traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping...
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Religious use of
incense has its
origins in antiquity. The
burned incense may be
intended as a
symbolic or
sacrificial offering to
various deities or spirits...
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Incense in
China is
traditionally used in a wide
range of
Chinese cultural activities including religious ceremonies,
ancestor veneration, traditional...
- The
burning of
incense in ****an
began during the 6th
century (the A**** period) with the
introduction of Buddhism,
which uses
incense during rituals and...
