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enkindle, v.|ɛnˈkɪnd(ə)l|
Also 6 enkendle, 6–8 inkindle.
[f. en-1 + kindle v.]
1. trans. To cause (a flame, etc.) to blaze up. Chiefly fig. to excite (passions, war, etc.).
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 63 Whose sight thy passion angrye Enkendleth. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 38 A short blazd straw-fire, to tinde or inkindle Hell-fire. 1652Bp. Patrick Fun. Serm. in J. Smith's Sel. Disc. 533 He who inflames our souls with love to God, will certainly enkindle a subordinate love within us to himself. a1691Boyle Wks. VI. 531 (R.) The apprehension..ran..of its [the Fire of London] being inkindled with design by the French and Dutch. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 185 ⁋7 Fresh remembrance of vexation must still enkindle rage. 1794S. Williams Vermont 307 All parties had cautiously avoided enkindling a civil war. 1819Month. Mag. XLVIII. 307 This poetic fury appears to have been first enkindled in Bodmer by the appearance of the five first books of Klopstock's Messiah. 1858Kingsley Andromeda 329 In her heart new life was enkindled.
2. To set (a combustible) on fire. In lit. sense Obs. or arch.
1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. xiii. (R.) Nor let us extinguish the smoldering flaxe, but enkendle it. 1638Wilkins New World iii. (1707) 29 Such solid Orbs, that by their swift Motion might heat and enkindle the adjoining Air. 1747Hales in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 582 (2) Some Means..to inkindle the sulphureous Vapours. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias' Descr. Greece I. 43 But then the pieces of wood..were enkindled without fire.
b. fig. To inflame with passion, desire, etc. † Former const. to (an action, object of pursuit).
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xvi. (1634) 662 They shall hereby be the more inkindled to the endevor of renuing. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. iii. 120 That trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the Crowne. a1619Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 25 The King..inkindled with this affront, spared not his Person, to auenge his wrath. 1628Bp. Hall Old Relig. 34 He is inwardly inkindled to an indeauour of good. 1834Disraeli Rev. Epick iii. xiii. 10 That voice that like a trump Their blood enkindled.
c. transf. To light up, illuminate.
1870Lowell Study Wind. 114 That literary heaven..artificially enkindled from behind. 1876Swinburne Erechth. 1372 And the light of their eyeballs enkindled so bright with the lightnings of death.
†3. intr. To take fire; to burst forth in flame.
1553N. Grimalde tr. Cicero's Duties (c 1600) 87 a, Those things wherunto most men inkindled with greedinesse bee haled. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. xxxvii. 84 Wet Hay laid together..soon inkindles. 1747Hales in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 584 Those who have been on high Hills have observed Lightening to inkindle among the Clouds. |