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INFLA'ME, L. inflammo in and flamma, flame.

1. To set on fire to kindle to cause to burn in a literal sense. But more generally,

2. To excite or increase, as passion or appetite to enkindle into violent action as, to inflame love, lust or thirst to inflame desire or anger.

3. To exaggerate to aggravate in description.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. Unusual.

4. To heat to excite excessive action in the blood as to inflame the blood or body to inflame with wine.

5. To provoke to irritate to anger.

6. To increase to exasperate as, to inflame the enmity of parties, or the spirit of sedition.

7. To increase to augment as, to inflame a presumption.

INFLA'ME, To grow hot, angry and painful.

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The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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