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ignify

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To form into fire.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1647, Richard Tomlinson (translator and reviser), Jean de Renou(fr), 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.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From igni- + -fy.