Combustion

Definitions

1. The act or process of burning.
   countable, uncountable
2. A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
   countable, uncountable
3. A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
   countable, uncountable
4. Violent agitation, tumult.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“From this ground, with a kind of loose scorn, he continues the French Correspondence, and secretly contriveth a continuance of the Scotish Rebellion. He omits no Act of Contempt against the antient Nobility, that they might in the sence of their disgrace be, or at least dayly threaten⟳ some new Combustion.”

“There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.”

“Him the Almighty Power / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Etherial Skie / With hideous Ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.”

“But say⟳ from whence this new combustion springs.”

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