flagrate

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin flagrare, flagratum (“to burn”), verb transitive and intransitive.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /fləˈɡɹeɪt/

Verb edit

flagrate (third-person singular simple present flagrates, present participle flagrating, simple past and past participle flagrated)

(obsolete) To burn.
- 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
  This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of

References edit

“flagrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin edit

Verb edit

flāgrāte

second-person plural present active imperative of flāgrō