enkindle

English

Verb

enkindle (third-person singular simple present enkindles, present participle enkindling, simple past and past participle enkindled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To kindle; to arouse or evoke.

   Synonyms: inflame, set on fire; see also Thesaurus:thrill

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.

   • 1809, Philip Freneau, Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers:

     "By them enkindled, every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm, […]

Derived terms

• enkindler
• reenkindle
• unenkindled

 

Translations

kindle; arouse or evoke

• Bulgarian: запалвам (bg) (zapalvam), разпалвам (bg) (razpalvam)
• German: anzünden (de), entfachen (de), anstecken (de)
• Ukrainian: запалити (zapalyty), розпалити (rozpalyty)

Anagrams

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