ignify

English

Etymology

From Latin ignis (“fire”) + -fy.

Verb

ignify (third-person singular simple present ignifies, present participle ignifying, simple past and past participle ignified)

1. (obsolete) To form into fire.
   • 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport Or Two Thousand Paradoxes Merilly Argued:

     whole quantity of Aer ignify'd

References

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