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UK
/fɹˈæŋkɪnsəns/
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[ US /ˈfɹæŋkənˌsɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹæŋkənˌsɛns/ ]
NOUN
- an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
How To Use frankincense In A Sentence
- What a comedown for the land known in ancient times as Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, whose rulers included the Queen of Sheba and whose caravan routes supplied frankincense and myrrh to the Holy Roman Empire.
- What a comedown for the land known in ancient times as Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, whose rulers included the Queen of Sheba and whose caravan routes supplied frankincense and myrrh to the Holy Roman Empire.
- Frankincense, Carrot Seed, Rose, Sweet Almond, Jojoba and so on.
- Then exchange sensual massages with exotic babassu oil from the Amazon - tinged with essential oils of orange, sandalwood and frankincense.
- Jewish ceremonial incense includes frankincense and myrrh, and is frequently mentioned in the Pentateuch, the Jewish Old Testament.
- Trees include the Ash, palm, laurel tree, the myrrh tree, frankincense, the cane tree or plant, the cedar, heletrepion, the orange and lemon tree.
- Let the Panchæan land [42] be rich in amomum, and let it produce cinnamon, and its zedoary, [43] and frankincense distilling from its tree, and its other flowers, so long as it produces the myrrh-tree, as well. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
- The best souk is in Muscat, where stalls groan under the weight of antique silver (all sold by weight), tribal art from Zanzibar, dishdashas, frankincense and exotic perfumes.
- Frankincense" was an aromatic used in sacrificial offerings; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The incense [3171] also, in like manner, [was compounded] of stacte, onycha, galbanum, mint, and frankincense, all which do in no respect, either as to their mixture or weight, harmonize with their argument. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus