单词 | conflagrant |
释义 | conflagrantadj. In conflagration, on fire, blazing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] quickeOE burningc1000 swealinga1023 tinded1297 alightc1400 flamed1413 alive1571 comburent1599 combustious1622 combustible1632 conflagrant1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Conflagrant, most earnestly desiring or burning in love. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 548 Then raise From the conflagrant mass, purg'd and refin'd, New Heav'ns, new Earth. View more context for this quotation 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxvii. 124 So intense Rag'd the conflagrant mass. 1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 275 I'll..kindle a conflagrant fire in Babylon. 1841 Fraser's Mag. 24 688 How..can an extension of the crime fail to be proportionately flagrant and conflagrant in the impartial eyes of Justice? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1656 |
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