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enkindle (third-person singular simple present enkindles, present participle enkindling, simple past and past participle enkindled)
- (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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, […]
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