Meaning of conflagrant | Babel Free

Definitions

Brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.

Examples

“I would have⟳ cast⟳ me into molten glass To cool me, when I enter'd; so intense Rag'd the conflagrant mass.”

“Have⟳ you beheld the flashes from conflagrant dwellings, burnishing with angry beams the high vault of heaven? Ah! and did you descry the dear form⟳ of infant woe, and catch⟳, with listening ear, the last⟳ bitter groan which escaped the angry billows of the ocean of flames?”

“I proceed to draw⟳ near to the metropolis, as I do not remember⟳ being struck with anything else, except with the country north of Birmingham, which might in one place⟳ be designated, the region of the ten thousand furnaces; which has a forlorn look⟳ of desolation and wretchedness in day light⟳, but at night must no doubt⟳ assume⟳ an aspect of great conflagrant magnificence.”

“After adverting to the various opinions of former writers upon the subject, he calls attention to the “great lightnings and torrents of rain⟳ always attendant upon volcanic eruptions;” and expresses his conviction that this “ continuous blazing of the lightning, and whirling of the fire over and around stony mountains, distant from the conflagrant regions, having their summits uncovered by earth, must ignite the stone; and by the simultaneous dashing down of water the fury of the fire being prodigiously increased, there would be a melting of the stone, which would run⟳ like⟳ water over the surrounding plains.””

“Leaped at a bound, aud smote him: hissed at once./The grisly monster’s heads enormous, scorched/In one conflagrant blaze.”

“And whirlpools churn the currents when the surges,/ Spent with their rage, would settle⟳ to a calm,/ And the conflagrant blast tempestuous urges/ The lambent tide with bluster to alarm/The spirits free from momentary harm⟳:/ None can in anodyne lethean rest⟳,/ None in forgetfulness can taste⟳ the balm/ Of sleep's nepenthe, by the rollers pressed,/ That lash them with their out-stretched arms and foaming crest.”

“Nay, the kindly shine⟳ of summer, when tracked home with the scientific spyglass, is found to issue⟳ from the most portentous nightmare of the universe — the great, conflagrant sun: a world of hell's squibs, tumultuary, roaring aloud, inimical to life. The sun itself is enough to disgust a human being of the scene which he inhabits ; and you would not fancy there was a green or habitable spot in a universe thus awfully lighted up. And yet it Is by the blaze of such a conflagration, to which the fire of Rome was but a spark, that we do all our fiddling, and hold⟳ domestic tea-parties at the arbour door.”

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