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afire, adv. and pred. a., prop. phr.|əˈfaɪə(r)|
Forms: 3 afur(e, 4 o fure, afyr, 4–5 afere, 5 afyre, 4– afire. The forms in u |y| are s.w., that in e Kentish.
[a- prep.1 11 of state, in + fire. The full on fyr is not found early; Wyclif has in fire.]
1. On or in fire, in a state of burning or inflammation; esp. in phr. to set afire.
1205Layamon 27109 Þat sculden for Ardure Rome ifullen afure. 1297R. Glouc. 380 Þe gret cyte of Medes suþþe afure he sette. c1350Body & Soul 347 The world shal al o fure ben. 1447O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys 168 Wyth a brynnyng chere As alle the hous had been afere. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcii. 168 The scottes sette a fyre the stakkes of heye. 1647Fuller Good Thoughts (1841) 135 If our clay cottage be not cooled with rest, the roof falls a fire. a1845Hood Ode to Son i, Why, Jane! he'll set his pinafore a-fire! 1869Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 416 We have had our sitting-room chimney afire this morning.
2. fig. of passion, etc.
1382Wyclif James iii. 6 And it enflaumed, or set afijre, of helle, enflaumeth the wheel of oure birthe. [Tindale, Genev., a fyre.] 1384Chaucer L.G.W. 2493 The devyl sette here soules bothe a fere. 1604T. Wright Passions of Mind v. §4. 279 Lovers ire sets love afier. 1875F. W. H. Myers Poems 51 With trembling knees and heart afire. |