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† incend, v. Obs. (exc. as nonce-wd.)|ɪnˈsɛnd|
[ad. L. incend-ĕre to set on fire, kindle, f. in- (in-2) + *candĕre to cause to glow, cf. candēre to glow, shine: cf. It. incendere to kindle, inflame.]
1. trans. To kindle, set alight, set on fire. In quot. 1872, to burn as incense (nonce-use).
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 32 b/1 A little peece or inche of a candle, which they incende and light. 1598Yong Diana 149 Nor thou that I in flames am thus incended. 1624Quarles Div. Poems, Sion's Sonn. xx. 19 Thy breath..incends quick flames. 1705C. Purshall Mech. Macrocosm 34 Steel incended by the stroak of a Flint. 1872J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. iv. 12 It signifies merely to destroy by fire; whereas the other means to incend, or consume as incense.
2. To engender (bodily heat); to heat, inflame (the body or its organs).
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe iii. iii. (1541) 54 a, Naturall heate, by withdrawinge of moysture, is to moche incended. 1574Newton Health Mag. 5 Nothyng doth so muche incende and enflame naturall heate, as laboure and mooving. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. iii. i, They incend it [the brain] without measure.
3. To inflame, excite (the mind, passions, etc.); to incite to action.
1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. vi. 200 Loue knoweth no mesure; but it incendeth the louer oute of measure. 1531Elyot Gov. i. xxiii, The perfecte paterne of Industrie..to be understande of the reders. And..incende them to approche to the true practising therof. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vi. 201 Oh theres a line incends his lustfull blood. 1684T. Hockin Gods Decrees 71 Spanish flies..given in a potion incend lust.
Hence inˈcending vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe i. (1539) 11 b, Moche incendynge or adustion of bloude. 1772Nugent tr. Hist. Friar Gerund II. 328 The Persians offered to the sun..incending pyres. |