Associations to the word «Olibanum»

Wiktionary

OLIBANUM, noun. A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense. [from 14th c.]

Dictionary definition

OLIBANUM, noun. An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats