enflammable

comparative more enflammable · superlative most enflammable

1. rareRare spelling of inflammable.

   the packing in the same package of any article which is not of enflammable or explosive nature; or liable to cause fire or explosion together with an explosive or the 1st Division of the 6th (Amendment) Class.

   1987, Chandra Behari, Law of Arms & Explosives, Hind Publishing House, page 349

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   Eructations and eruptions of flames are found no less in cold than in hot countries, as in Iceland and Greenland; just as the trees are sometimes more enflammable, and more pitchy and Tesinous in cold than in hot climates: as the fir, pine and others.

   1843, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Scientiarum. A New Machine of the Sciences, Christian School-Book Society, page 62

   That night, my father explained that Carbona is carbon tetrachloride which, though volatile, like gasoline (so it is useful for dry cleaning) but, unlike gasoline, it was not enflammable (gasoline forms explosive mixtures with air because it is highly enflammable).

   1994, Second NASA Aerospace Pyrotechnic Systems Workshop, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, page 362