Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inflame; make fiery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To inflame; to excite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
inflame ; toexcite .
Etymologies
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Latin incendere, incensum, to kindle, burn. See incense to inflame.
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Sumdae, ai hoeps ebreewun can has teh grate kneed tu cee Niagara Falolls – witch, incend…insient…oddlee enuf, bees beri kneer ware a sertin liddol witch teh nice-ish kynd jus happins tu lif.
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Why students and lovers are so often melancholy and mad, the philosopher of [2671] Conimbra assigns this reason, because by a vehement and continual meditation of that wherewith they are affected, they fetch up the spirits into the brain, and with the heat brought with them, they incend it beyond measure: and the cells of the inner senses dissolve their temperature, which being dissolved, they cannot perform their offices as they ought.
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