ppl. a. Obs. [f. L. pa. pple. accens-us kindled + -ED. Analogous to incensed, but no vb. to accense is cited.] Kindled, set on fire, inflamed.
1573. T. Twyne, Æneid, XII. L l 3 b. The valient brothers band with griefe accenst in ire [L. accensi].
1613. T. Adams, Pract. Wks., in Nichol’s Purit. Div. (1861), I. 458. Candles once accensed are not to be thrust into abstruse corners.
1760. Stiles, Erupt. Vesuv., in Phil. Trans., LII. 41. The flames, and the accensed stones thrown up, were very terrible.
