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conflagrate, v.|ˈkɒnfləgreɪt|
[f. L. conflagrāt-, ppl. stem of conflagrā-re to burn, burn up; f. con- + flagrāre to blaze: see flagrant, flame.]
1. intr. To catch fire, burst into flame. Also fig.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 572 Reeds..by the agitation of the wind..sometimes conflagrate. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. ii. vi, Civil war, conflagrating universally over France. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 560 If he should conflagrate into song.
2. trans. To set a-blaze; to burn up, consume with fire. Also fig.
1835Croker Ess. (1856) 313 The most sudden and violent excitement which ever conflagrated a nation. 1838Carlyle Ess. (1888) VI. 32 Popularity is as a blaze..kindled round a man..conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and caput mortuum.
Hence conflaˈgrated ppl. a.
1814J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1856) II. 102 Rebellion, civil war, prostrated liberty, and conflagrated towns. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 175 [His health] was in a strangely painful, and as if conflagrated condition. |