Meaning of ignify | Babel Free

Definitions

To form into fire.

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.”

“[…]found, that the whole quantity of Aer ignify'd[…].”

“[…]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;”

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