disinflame

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ inflame

Verb

disinflame (third-person singular simple present disinflames, present participle disinflaming, simple past and past participle disinflamed)

1. To divest of flame or ardour.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book XII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     O Lycians , why are your hot spirits so quickly disinflamed?

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disinflame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)