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holy fire arch.
[transl. L. sacer ignis ‘sacred fire’ (Celsus, Vergil); cf. Ger. das heilige Feuer.]
Erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire: see fire n. 12.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxii. (Bodl. MS.) Þe yuel þat hatte..Ignis saluaticus and sacer ignis the holy fuyre. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 201 The holy fire is a disease of Sheep almost incurable, because if any remedy do but touch them, they fall mad. Ibid. 476 Of the Holy fire which the Shepheards call the Pox, or the Blisters, or Saint Anthonies fire. 1813T. Busby Lucretius vi. 764 Observe the Holy-Fire Eat as it creeps, and through the frame its dire, Its flamy virus lead! |