† inˈcensive, a. and n. Obs. rare.
Also 7 insensive.
[a. obs. F. incensif, -ive, ad. L. type *incensīv-us, f. incens-, ppl. stem of incendĕre: see incend and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Of inflamed disposition, full of rage or wrath.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) I. 90/2 Unto Christian piety and Religion, he was most incensive, and in the East Churches exercised cruel persecution. |
2. Tending to inflame or excite passion or angry feeling.
| 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 1 Quarelling, and multiplying incensive terms. a 1677 Barrow Wks. (1686) III. x. 118 To be extremely hated, and inhumanely persecuted without any fault committed, or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of humane passion. |
B. n. = incentive n. 1
| a 1618 Raleigh War D vj b, Hence we may observe, that the very propagation of our kind, hath with it a strong insensive even of those daily Wars, which afflict the earth. |