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† ˈscare-fire Obs.
Also 6 skarifyer, 7 scar-, scarre-, skare-, skar-.
[Prob. a corruption of scathefire, as if f. scare n.2]
A sudden conflagration.
1572Nottingham Rec. (1889) IV. 143 Payd to Thomas Clarke for his payns at the skarifyer at Mr. Burtons. 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xxvii. 604 These speeches..were interrupted and stayed by occasion of a Scare-fire, that began in sundrie places together about the Forum. 1637J. Pocklington Altare Christ. 132 We reject private Masses..to be a remedy against Pestilence, inundation, tempest, scare-fire, &c. 1648Herrick Hesper., Bell-man, From noise of Scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicitie. 1684S. G. Angl. Spec. 479 Of Manufactures, the greatest is the Engine, for quenching of Scare-fires.
fig.1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxv. 230 The Priests melted mens hearts into Charity with the Scare-fire of Purgatory. |