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

1. (obsolete) To form into fire.
   • 1647, Richard Tomlinson (translator and reviser), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, [1623, Jean de Renou, Dispensatorium medicum], page 68,

     For Ignition in ſome is the end of Uſtion, in others, Uſtion is not terminated till smoke expire; and yet many ſtones may be ignified three or four times, and ſtill ſuffunded with a certain humour, till they be bray'd.

   • 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport: Or Two Thouſand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuſe and Divert the Age, page 146:

     […] found, that the 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 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;

参照

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