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frankincense|ˈfræŋkɪnsɛns|
Forms: 4 franke ensens, 5 frank encens, -ensence, -ynsens, 6 frankenscence, -insence, (6–7 fran(c)kumsence), 6– frankincense.
[a. OF. franc encens: see frank a.2 and incense. The special meaning of the adj. in this combination seems to be ‘of high quality’: see frank a.2 5.]
1. An aromatic gum resin, yielded by trees of the genus Boswellia, used for burning as incense; olibanum; occas. the smoke from the same.
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 42 Thus album, i. olibanum, franke ensens. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 8 Kynges iij With gold, myrre, and ffrankynsens. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 849 Cloves that be swete smellyng, Frankensence, and olibanum. 1552Latimer Serm. Gosp. vi. 188 Franckumsence to signify his priesthoode. 1645Fuller Good Th. in Bad T. (1841) 50 He..sent Leonidas a present of five hundred talents' weight of frankincense. 1718Prior Pleasure 904 Curling frankincense ascends to Baal. 1834Lytton Pompeii iv. iii, Odour of myrrh and frankincense.
2. Resin resembling this, obtained from firs or pines. Also, the tree itself.
1577Harrison England ii. xxii. (1877) i. 342 The firre, frankincense, and pine we doo not altogither want. 1620J. Mason Brief Disc. Newfoundland B iij, Tarre, Tirpintine, Frank-Incense. 1866Treas. Bot., Frankincense..European, a resinous exudation of the spruce fir. The name is also applied to Pinus Tæda.
3. attrib. as frankincense-pine, frankincense-tree.
1611Bible Ecclus. l. 8 As the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 436 Frankincense tree. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 106/1 The Frankincense pine of Virginia (Pinus tæda).
Hence ˈfrankincensed a., perfumed with frankincense.
1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. i. 204 No velvet-bound missal, nor frankincensed manuscript. |