Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which inflames.
- noun Specifically, a bookkeeper employed in inns to run up, increase, or inflame the bills of customers: called the inflamer of reckonings. Jonson introduces a man of this kind in “The New Inn.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The person or thing that inflames.
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- noun Something that
inflames .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Obama is now anti-police and an out of the closet race inflamer whose judgment can't and shouldn't be trusted on the crucial issue of health care reform.
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Here is certainly no wandering preacher, no inflamer of crowds, no ambitious madman whipping up a following for his own gain.
The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989
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Here is certainly no wandering preacher, no inflamer of crowds, no ambitious madman whipping up a following for his own gain.
The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989
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[Condemns cocoa as a violent inflamer of the passions.]
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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Thus, whilst it was praised by many for its "wonderful faculty of quenching thirst, allaying hectic heats, of nourishing and fattening the body," it was seriously condemned by others as an inflamer of the passions!
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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It was regarded by some as a violent inflamer of the passions, which should be prohibited to the monks; for, as one writer puts it, "if such an interdiction had existed, the scandal with which that holy order has been branded might have proved groundless."
The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head
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The fair young woman's warm nature flew out to him on a sparkle of grateful tenderness in return for his magnanimity, oblivious of the inflamer it was: and her heart thanked him more warmly, without the perilous show of emotion, when she found herself secure.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The fair young woman's warm nature flew out to him on a sparkle of grateful tenderness in return for his magnanimity, oblivious of the inflamer it was: and her heart thanked him more warmly, without the perilous show of emotion, when she found herself secure.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The fair young woman's warm nature flew out to him on a sparkle of grateful tenderness in return for his magnanimity, oblivious of the inflamer it was: and her heart thanked him more warmly, without the perilous show of emotion, when she found herself secure.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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Are they resolved and prepared for a rancorous, interminable hostility in prosecution of such a benign purpose; with a continual exhaustion upon it of the resources which might be applied to diminish that wretchedness of the people, which is the grand inflamer of those principles that have caused an earthquake under the foundations of the old social systems?
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806
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