flagrate

English

Etymology

From Latin flagrare, flagratum (“to burn”), verb transitive and intransitive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fləˈɡɹeɪt/

Verb

flagrate (third-person singular simple present flagrates, present participle flagrating, simple past and past participle flagrated)

1. (obsolete) To burn.
   • 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:

     This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of

References

• “flagrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

flāgrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of flāgrō