enfire

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English

Etymology

en- +‎ fire

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈfaɪə(ɹ)/, /ɛnˈfaɪə(ɹ)/

Verb

enfire (third-person singular simple present enfires, present participle enfiring, simple past and past participle enfired)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To set on fire.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne in Honour of Love:
      So hard those heavenly beauties he enfired

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enfire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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