单词 | flame of fire |
释义 | > as lemmasflame of fire 1. Vapour heated to the point of combustion; ignited gas. Also, †flame of fire. extracted from flamen.adj. a. without plural. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze leye971 blazeOE lowec1175 flamec1384 fire-flamea1450 burning1695 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 261 Flaumbe ys but lyghted smoke. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) x. iv. 376 Flamme is fyre in ayry matere. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 29 Oute of þe whilk commes flawme of fire. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 23 Where earthquakes haue been, great aboundaunce of smoke, flame, & ashes, is cast out. 1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum vi. 60 Flame is nothing but a multitude of Sparks. 1704 I. Newton Opticks iii. i. 134 Is not flame a vapour, fume or exhalation heated red hot, that is, so hot as to shine? 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxv. 368 Flame consists of particles of carbon brought to a white heat,—an opinion of Sir Humphry Davy's. b. with plural: A portion of ignited vapour, often spire-like or tongue-like. †to put to flames: to set on fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > a flame steamc1300 flamea1340 open flame1861 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxviii. [xxix.] 7 Þe voice of lord sherand þe flaume of fire. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 239 Þe weyke and fyre wil make a warme flaumbe. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlviii. l. 174 Fir and flambes they Casten Echedel vppon Moys there that he sat. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxiv. 221 His vysage became lyke a flame of fyer. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12009 Flammes of fyre fuerse to behold. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 Thrice to the vaulted Roof the Flames aspire. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 272 The flames ascended above my head. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 245 The acid burns with a blue flame. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 13 The sky of Paris was red with the incendiary flames of the Commune. c. figurative (see also 6.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] heatc825 earnestOE fervour1340 ardourc1386 fever heata1398 burning1398 lowea1425 fervencec1430 ferventnessc1430 flame1548 ardency1549 fervency1554 fire1579 calenture1596 inflammation1600 warmth1600 brimstonea1616 incandescence1656 fervidness1692 candency1723 glow1748 white heat1814 hwyl1899 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cliiij The inhabitauntes..perceyuing, that the greate flamme of the Englishe force was extinct and consumid. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. ii. 59 Let me not liue..After my flame lackes oyle. View more context for this quotation 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. i. 61 Saint Hierome, the..cleare flame of the Church. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 83 War's great flame he shall kindle in Italy. d. plural (with the) = fire. Chiefly with reference to death or destruction by burning. Phrase, to commit to the flames. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > red amber-bush1607 carrots?1671 flame1817 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 249/2 The blessid chyldren wente thorugh the flambes. 1656 A. Cowley Misc. 10 in Poems Pity him Jove, and his bold Theft allow, The flames he once stole from thee grant him now. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 354 He was put into the flames with the General Acclamation of the Multitude. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 191 Ziska..condemned the rest to the flames. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xxv. 262 When the consuming flames had wrapt ye round. e. with reference to hell or purgatory. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > fire of hell-fireeOE fireOE flamec1384 hell's kitchen1694 the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory > fire of flamec1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xvi. 24 Send Lazarus, that he..kele my tunge; for I am turmentid in this flawme. c1575 W. Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577) 182 To quench the flambes of purgatory. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 304 By hellish flams thy soule..devoured bee. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Sisters 7 She died: she went to burning flame. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vital Flame, a kind of subtil gentle kindled Heat which some suppose to be in the Heart of Living-Creatures. < as lemmas |
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