flammation

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noun

The act of setting on fire; inflammation.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounflammation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe act of setting on fire; inflammation.

    Arsenic […]being artificial and sublimed with salt, will not endure flammation

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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