combure

present singular third person combures · participle present comburing · participle past combured · past combured

1. raretransitiveTo burn up, to burn away, to consume with fire.

   Vſe combured Hartshorne, or pulveriſated Coralle in vvine.

   1599, The Boocke of Physicke, page 129

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   […] they add to it Betele, which like the Jvie leafe involves the Arec and combured oyſter-ſhells, a chalky ſubſtance, good in operative property, as colouring their white teeth to a pure crimſon; it alſo ſweetens the breath, kills wormes, giddies the braine, dries rheumes, helps Venus, and begets an appetite.

   1638, Some Yeares Travels, page 28

   A first one of latency, or of insertion of the virus—the poisoning proper—in which the germ is sunk in the system; and that of pullutation, or proliferation, in which new germs pervade the organism, which will try to throw them off by all its possible issues, or to combure them by excessive ustions; either of which alternate efforts of nature we call the disease.

   1876, Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature, page 354

   Synonyms: combust, burn, burn away, burn down, burn up, burn to a crisp, char up, cinder