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inflammable, a. (n.)|ɪnˈflæməb(ə)l|
Also 7 inflamable, 7–8 inflameable.
[repr. L. type *inflammābilis, f. inflammāre (see inflame and -ble); perh. immediately from F. inflammable (Cotgr. 1611). The 17–18th c. inflamable, inflameable, was app. an Eng. formation on the vb.: cf. blam(e)able.]
A. adj.
1. Capable of being inflamed or set on fire; susceptible of combustion; easily set on fire. Cf. flammable a.
inflammable air (light i. a.), a name formerly given to hydrogen gas; heavy inflammable air, carburetted hydrogen or fire-damp.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 54 The sulphurous substance and inflamable matter. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 87 Brimstone is a Minerall body of fat and inflamable parts. 1673–4Grew Veget. Trunks iv. §4 A volatile and inflammable Spirit. 1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 93 In what proportions several Liquors contein more or less of inflameable or ardent parts. 1736Phil. Trans. Abr. VIII. 77 (heading) Experiments on Inflammable Air. 1779Inflammable gas [see gas n.1 2]. 1789Austin in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 54, I therefore attempted to decompose the heavy inflammable air by means of sulphur, which readily unites with the light inflammable air in a condensed state, and with it forms hepatic air. 1791[see hydrogen]. 1871Roscoe Chem. 322 Alcohol is very inflammable. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 103 This is the gas which was formerly known as inflammable air, and is now called hydrogen. 1962Muir & Barclay Burns & their Treatm. Foreword, It is unfortunate that children and the elderly should bear the brunt of our apparent unwillingness to..elaborate methods of rendering clothing less inflammable. 1968Which? Mar. 92 Recently..the Toilet Preparations Federation recommended to their members that inflammable hair preparations should carry a warning. 1968E. Gale From Fibres to Fabrics xiv. 151 To render fabrics non-inflammable, they may be treated with mineral salts. 1972Sci. Amer. Mar. 54/3 If a resulting spark has enough energy inflammables are ignited and explosions are set off.
2. Easily fired or roused to excitement; excitable, hasty-tempered, passionate.
1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 222 Henry..was, moreover, of so violent and inflammable a temper, that half a word was sufficient..to set his blood boiling. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) I. 442 That lively, high-souled, sensitive, and inflammable people. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 65 Their disposition is very sanguine and inflammable.
3. Of disease: Inflammatory. rare.
a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 405 The inhabitants are little liable to inflammable disease.
B. n. An inflammable substance. (Chiefly in pl.) Also fig.
1770Cronstedt in Monthly Rev. 312 Inflammables, which can be dissolved in oils but not in waters. 1794Kirwan Min. I. 1 The Mineral Kingdom is usually divided into four parts; 1. Earths and Stones. 2. Salts. 3. Inflammables. 4. Metallic Substances. 1807‘Cervantes Hogg’ Rising Sun I. 141 There may be some inflammables [women] here, for all that. 1894Daily News 7 Apr. 5/8 An alarming fire broke out amongst some cargo, consisting of hay, timber, and other inflammables.
Hence inˈflammableness, the quality of being inflammable; inˈflammably adv., in an inflammable manner.
1680Boyle Scept. Chem. v. 318 They ascribe..to sulphur, as well Odours as inflamableness. 1727Bailey vol. II, Inflameableness [ed. 1731 inflammableness], capableness of being inflamed or set on Fire. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 393 A light, ill-informed, inflammably-constituted public mind. 1830Godwin Cloudesley II. ii. 29 Partly by the inflammableness of his disposition in that respect. 1922Joyce Ulysses 716 The same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted first with alarm, then with understanding. |