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insense: to make (a person) understand H8 V. i. 43 “I think I have I-'d the lords o' the council that he is . . . A most arch heretic” (F1 “Incenst”; referred by some to INCENSE and explained ‘provoked to believe’). ∥ In literary use from 15th to 17th cent., subsequently dial. and now in gen. use from Northumberland to Cornwall.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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