ignify
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ignis (“fire”) + -fy.
Verb
editignify (third-person singular simple present ignifies, present participle ignifying, simple past and past participle ignified)
- (obsolete) To form into fire.
- 1647, Richard Tomlinson (translator and reviser), Jean de Renou(fr), A Medicinal Dispensatory, [1623, Jean de Renou, Dispensatorium medicum], page 68,
- 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport Or Two Thousand Paradoxes Merilly Argued:
- whole quantity of Aer ignify'd
- 1748, “Abstract of the [new] Mechanical Practice of Physick”, in The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, volume 17, page 218:
- […] ſerves to to divide and mix ſuch parts of the fuel as are actually ignified and ſaturated with the ethereal fire, with the other freſh parts not yet actually laid hold of by the fire, or as yet but beginning to be ignified;
References
edit- “ignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.