incend
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin incendere, incensum (“to kindle, burn”). See incense (“to inflame”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
incend (third-person singular simple present incends, present participle incending, simple past and past participle incended)
- (obsolete) To inflame; to excite.
- 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
- a line incends his lustfull blood
References[edit]
“incend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.