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Verb
set alight (third-person singular simple present sets alight, present participle setting alight, simple past and past participle set alight) (transitive)
- To cause (something) to begin to burn.
- (figuratively) To arouse passion in (someone); to excite.
1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Burial Chant”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. , volume I, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 227:Each chapel had its saintly shrine, hung around with offerings; its picture above the altar, although closely veiled, if by any painter of renown; and its hallowed tapers, burning continually, to set alight the devotion of the worshippers.
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to cause to begin to burn
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