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† ˈfire-ˈhot, a.
[f. as prec.]
a. Of material things: Hot as fire; red-hot.
b. fig. Inflamed with zeal, passion, or lust. Obs.
a1000Elene 937 (Gr.) Fyrhat lufu. 1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. x. iv. (Tollem. MS.), As it fareþ in fyre hoot yren and in brennynge cole. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. (1892) 979 Whan it was fyre hote. 1589R. Harvey P. Perc. 17, I dare saie..(with that firehot Preacher) that [etc.]. 1595J. Weever in Shaks. C. Praise 16 Faire fire-hot Venus. 1605T. Hutton Reas. Refusal 37 In the daies of firehot persecution. 1678R. R[ussell] Geber iii. ii. iii. v. 224 That the Plates may be kept fire-hot. |