单词 | ignify |
释义 | ignifyv. rare. transitive. To set on fire, to cause to burn. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > set on fire inflamec1384 to set on firec1384 firec1425 incense1470 esprise1474 succend?a1475 embrase1480 to light upa1500 enfirea1522 ignifya1586 befire1613 incendiatea1701 to touch off1759 conflagrate1835 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb6 O tace, tace, or all the fat wil be ignified. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Ignify, to burn. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 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. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. v. 18 Let the Memorial..Be doom'd to ignify our Pipes. 1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) 813 There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is ignified. Derivatives ignified adj. ΚΠ 1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 72 The sun formed, out of the ignifyed part of matter. ignifying n. ΚΠ 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 218 Falling-starrs,..may be made either by pieces broken off from the true stars,..or from a company of ignifying atoms, meeting and joyning together to effect it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.a1586 |
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