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单词 flame of fire
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flame of fire
1. Vapour heated to the point of combustion; ignited gas. Also, †flame of fire.
a. without plural.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
f. vital flame (see quot. 1706). Obsolete in scientific use.
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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.
extracted from flamen.adj.
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