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ignify, v. rare.|ˈɪgnɪfaɪ|
[f. L. type *ignificāre, f. igni-s fire: see -fy. (Cf. late L. ignefacĕre.)]
trans. To set on fire, to cause to burn.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1598) 575 O tace, tace, or all the fat wil be ignified. 1656Blount Glossogr., Ignify, to burn. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 445 It is also probable, that the Solid parts of the Sun..are thoroughly ignified in the same manner as the Bricks in the Roof and Sides of a Furnace are. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. v. 18 Let the Memorial..Be doom'd to ignify our Pipes. 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 813 There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is ignified.
Hence ignified ppl. a.; ignifying vbl. n.
1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1701) 599/2 Falling-Stars..may be made either by pieces broken off from the true Stars..or from a company of ignifying Atoms, meeting and joining together to effect it. 1763W. Stukeley Palæogr. Sacra 72 The sun formed, out of the ignifyed part of matter. |