Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Combustible; inflammable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inflammable.

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  • adjective inflammable; combustible

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Examples

  • Santa Barbara, who is said in the Catholic calendar to preside over thunder and lightning, fire and gunpowder, and all kinds of combustious explosions.

    Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821

  • 155 Or, “a kiss which is to passion as dry combustious matter is to fire,” Shakesp. ib.

    Symposium 2007

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