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▪ I. † inˈcinerate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. med.L. incinerāt-us, pa. pple. of incinerāre: see next.]
= incinerated. (Const. as pa. pple. or adj.)
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. i. xix. in Ashm. (1652) 133 Thy Elements shalbe incynerate sone. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 182 b, Our fyrst mother Eue with her husbande was incinerate and turned to dust after theyr deth. 1626Bacon Sylva §683 Fire burneth Wood, making it first Luminous; Then Blacke and Brittle; And lastly, Broken and Incinerate.
▪ II. incinerate, v.|ɪnˈsɪnəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. incinerāre to reduce to ashes, f. in- (in-2) + cinis, ciner-em ashes (of a fire): see -ate3.]
1. trans. To reduce to ashes, burn to ashes, consume by fire.
1555Eden Decades 334 The fyer whose force dooth incinerate or brynge to asshes..all creatures. 1626Bacon Sylva §87 The Heat..doth Incinerate and Calcinate. 1661–80Boyle Scept. Chem. i. 80 It is the Fire only that Incinerates Bodies. 1805C. Hatchett in Phil. Trans. XCV. 216 Animal coal is incinerated with much more difficulty than vegetable coal or charcoal. 1884Manch. Exam. 10 Mar. 5/3 A Crematorium..has been established, in which..forty bodies had been incinerated after the manner of the Romans of old.
2. intr. To become reduced to ashes.
1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 190 A light spongy charcoal, which easily incinerates when burnt in the open air. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 396 Feathers, wool, hair, etc., when exposed to the action of fire liquify, more or less, before they incinerate. |