English

Adjective

essenced ‎(comparative more essenced, superlative most essenced)

1. scented, having an essence
   • 1847, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4):

     Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses shine, And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine.

   • 1891, Alexander Pope, Essay on Man:

     Painted for sight, and essenced for the smell, Like frigates fraught with spice and cochinel, Sail in the ladies: how each pirate eyes So weak a vessel, and so rich a prize!

   • 1920, Edmund William Gosse, Some Diversions of a Man of Letters:

     He liked the public to think of him, exquisitely habited, his long essenced hair falling about his eyes, flinging forth a torrent of musky and mellifluous improvisation; as a matter of fact he was a very hard worker, laborious in the arts of composition.

Anagrams

• senesced