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Quotation dates: 1399-1456, 1513-1626
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Inflam, -flamme, v. [Usual var. of Enflamme v. Cf. Inflamb, Inflame.] tr. To set on fire, to enflame. Usually in fig. sense, illustrated in sense b below.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints Prol. 103.
He had thame inflammyt swa That nan of thaim vald part hym fra 1513 Doug. xii. vii. 106.
Aganyst thar fayis he Hes fyrst thar spreit inflammyt to melle 1531 Bell. Boece II. 298.
He … inflammit him with maist fervent devotion thairto 1533 Boece v. iv. 171 b.
Inflammyng men to delicatenes aganis the temperance of antecessouris 1533 Ib. xi. xvi. 438 b.
Thir wourdis … facilie inflammyt Malcolme c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 987.
Than Cupido, with his fyrie dartis, Inflammit sa thir luiferis hartis c1590 Fowler I. 193, lviii. 2.
Love … Which doith inflam my spreits 1587-99 Hume iii. 136.
The hote reflexing of the sun Inflams the aire a1605 Montg. Son. lxiii. 7.
Quhat furious feynd inflamde thee so to flyte a1597-1617 Hist. James VI (1825) 6.
They … kendlit thair trayne of gun poulder, whilk inflammit the haill timber of the housb. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii. 568.
Dacyane, … Wes inflammyt of yre & tene, Quhen he this farly has sene ?1438 Alex. i. 900.
To fecht With thame of Gaderis, … That all inflammit war with ire ?1438 Ib. ii. 4134.
Porrus … , Inflammit with ire and melancoly 1456 Hay I. 84/19.
He that assailis is full of ire inflammyt 1531 Bell. Boece I. 96.
The Albianis, inflammit to battal be this hortation come forthwart … on thair ennimes 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 53/24.
The hauyn and spere of Mars … is inflammit in ane feruent heyt 1562-3 Winȝet II. 63/17.
This wil … , inflammit with a certane furious rage of al wices 1596 Dalr. I. 270/20.
Patto inflammet with the feruent zeale of martyrdome, scharplie corrected thair vyces 1602 Colville Parænese 71.
That … our frosin hartes may be inflammit to loue that inspekable loue 1626 Garden Worthies 95.
With the fervour of the faith inflam'd, Thow keept the Congregatione whill it calm'd
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